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 …