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Feeling useless: The effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco; Mueller, Hannes - 2015
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish … results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders … faced very low chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and …
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Side effects of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020
instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660610
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The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom
Bencsik, Panka; Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhaskar - 2021
We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of...
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The differential earnings and income effects of involuntary job loss on workers with disabilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Eliason, Marcus - 2014
People with disabilities, both in Sweden and elsewhere, are consistently found to face considerable difficulties on the labour market. In this study we have investigated the differential impact of involuntary job loss, on earnings and income, if being disabled. Our main findings are that...
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Mental health policy in India: Seven sets of questions and some answers
Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2017
This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide at least partial answers to these questions, based on a meta-analysis of existing research. Given the complexity of the subject, this paper is meant to serve more as a framing...
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The economics of grief
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health...
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Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2016
We use register data for Denmark (IDA) merged with the Danish Work Environment Cohort Survey (1995-2000-2005) to estimate the effect of employment insecurity on health for a sample of Danish employees. We consider two health measures from the SF-36 Health Survey Instrument: a vitality scale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739619
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164129
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Day-to-Day Living Expenses and Mental Health
Dackehag, Margareta; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2016
We use rich longitudinal survey and register data on Swedish individuals to examine the relationship between financial strain and mental health. Specifically, we consider the longitudinal relationships between payment difficulties and subjective (self-reported anxiety) as well as objective...
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Social Assistance and Mental Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data on Pharmaceutical Consumption
Dackehag, Margareta; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018
panel dataset including rich yearly register data on e.g. income, income sources, unemployment and types of pharmaceutical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208802