On the other hand, heavy drinking was shown to reduce the probability of being in employment for both men and women (Booth and Feng, 2002, MacDonald and Shields, 2004, Johansson et al., Some evidence suggests that alcohol-dependent people aged 30-59 are more likely to be unemployed than their non-dependent counterparts while this relationship is not significant in younger and older age groups (Mullahy and Sindelar, 1993). An increase in unemployment was found to be associated with higher suicide rates for people below age 65, and with a higher alcohol-related mortality (Stuckler et al., Working conditions, such as long working hours and job insecurity, have been linked with an increased likelihood of high-risk alcohol consumption (Marchand et al., A US study found that those who drank regularly during early adulthood had lower “occupational prestige” 15 years later, than occasional drinkers, the finding was particularly strong among African-Americans (Sloan et al.,