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 …

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 …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …