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 …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health … that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. …

An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts … 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 …

'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. …

instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …