Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …

unemployment, inflation, and the level and growth rate of real income on the one hand and measures of subjective well-being and … satisfaction despite the secular improvement in living standards. While higher unemployment reduced life satisfaction over the … conditions. However, higher unemployment is linked to higher suicide rates among younger males, although its effect appears to …

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. …

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 …

In this paper the effects of unemployment on mental health are analysed. A simple model where both the occurrence of … and duration of unemployment are allowed to affect mental health is specified. Panel data are used to control for 'fixed …

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 …