Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental …

'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. …

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …' unemployment, spill-over effects, and re-employment, among others. …

different institutional settings - Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US - using a nonparametric bounds analysis. Relying on …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 …