This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish … different segments of the Spanish labor market. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percentage … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, stress, hopelessness, and feelings of …

This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …

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 …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental health. I show that … the negative effect of unemployment on mental health depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several … unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status …