Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and …

Unemployment affects the mental health of partners almost as much as that of the unemployed person. The impact on …) which looked at couples affected by unemployment due to business closures. The findings show that the costs of unemployment …