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The effects of Medicaid expansion on job loss induced mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented level of job losses in the U.S., where a job loss is also associated with the loss of health insurance. This paper uses data from the 2020 Household Pulse Survey (HPS) and difference-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the...
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Work loss and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bratsberg, Bernt; Godøy, Anna; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; … - 2023
We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define groups of employees delineated by industry, region, age, and gender. With these groups, we use a...
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The mental cost of job loss : assessing the impact on young adults in Vietnam
Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022
impact of unemployment on young people's experiences of anxiety and depression. Using data from a longitudinal study with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358756
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A family affair : job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents
Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014
This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health : nonparametric evidence from four countries
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
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 … short periods of unemployment. Public policy should hence focus on early prevention of mental health problems among the …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update
Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021.
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The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July...
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The ins and outs of European unemployment
Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the late 1980s. -- Unemployment dynamics ; job finding rates ; job separation rates …
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Job displacement and local employment density
Maré, David Christopher; Fabling, Richard; Hyslop, … - 2023
Past research finds evidence that workers' labour market outcomes are enhanced if they live in areas with greater job opportunities and employment density. Using two alternative measures of the employment density and job opportunities faced by workers in the local labour market in which they...
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