Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working … (working fewer hours than desired), however, seems to only be of significance in Australia. …

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental …

's worsens only after they have been out of the labor force for a period of time. Entering unemployment is also associated with a …'s unemployment is increased by protracted depressive symptoms. …

This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …

different institutional settings - Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US - using a nonparametric bounds analysis. Relying on …An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts … fairly weak and partially testable assumptions, our paper shows that unemployment has a significant negative effect on mental …

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …

women experience longer unemployment durations and comparable hourly wage losses. Displaced expectant mothers experience … female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …