This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent … of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The … study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children …

The costs of mental ill-health for individuals, employers and society at large are enormous. Mental illness is … Health and Work) and nine country reports, this final synthesis report summarizes the findings from the participating …

mental health may be as important a prerequisite for continuing employment as good physical health. This study uses data from …This paper extends earlier health and work studies by examining how mental health affects transitions out of paid work … the Health and Retirement Study to examine how mental health is linked to transitions to early retirement or other …

the Health and Retirement Study. We calculate the gender gap as the difference in the prevalence of elevated depressive … nested interventions by assigning women the same probabilities of A) being in an employment category, B) occupation class, C …) current income, and D) prior income group as men, conditional on women’s health and family status until age 70. Findings: The …

In times of demographic change, better job quality is needed to promote health and thereby extend employment … neglected their combined effects on health and employment. To address this limitation, we have built upon an established … affects non-employment and how mental and physical health mediate this association. Analyses were based on representative data …

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … diagnosed mental disorders. However, these effects tend to fade out quickly, and the negative impacts on subsequent employment … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …