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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13099
	DP13099 Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession
	Lidia Farre; Francesco Fasani; Hannes Mueller
发表日期	2018-08-03
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job losses in different segments of the Spanish labour market. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percentage points due to the breakdown in construction raised reported poor health and mental disorders in the affected population by 3 percentage points, respectively. We argue that the size of this effect responds to the fact that the construction sector was at the centre of the economic recession. As a result, workers exposed to the negative labor demand shock faced very low chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, stress, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. These effects point towards a potential channel for unemployment hysteresis.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Mental health Great recession Unemployment Hysteresis
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13099
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541903
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lidia Farre,Francesco Fasani,Hannes Mueller. DP13099 Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession. 2018.