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 …

Search, and these unique data allow the opportunity to estimate the effects of weekly unemployment insurance claims, in … addition to monthly unemployment rates, on search indexes for “depression” and “anxiety.” Results from state fixed effects … models that include year and week dummies yield 1) a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and the depression …