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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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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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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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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. …
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Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...
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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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obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self …-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis. Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …
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