Poor mental health influences risk and duration of unemployment: a prospective study

Butterworth, Peter; Leach, Liana; Pirkis, Jane; Kelaher, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s00127-011-0409-1

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“…This finding is in concordance with other studies, showing that health is an important determinant of early retirement (16, 18, 27, 28), unemployment (29,30) and disability pension (6). However, this study did not show that health status influenced the transition into economic inactivity.…”

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The effect of ill health and socioeconomic status on labor force exit and re-employment: a prospective study with ten years follow-up in the Netherlands

Schuring¹,

Robroek²,

Otten³

et al. 2012

Scand J Work Environ Health

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The effect of ill health and socioeconomic status on labor force exit and re-employment: a prospective study with ten years follow-up in the Netherlands

Schuring¹,

Robroek²,

Otten³

et al. 2012

Scand J Work Environ Health

189

156

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“…The BRFSS is a cross-sectional survey and therefore causation cannot be determined. Because we cannot be certain of the temporal sequence of unemployment and mental health in this study, we must consider the possibility that those with poor mental health may be more likely to be unemployed, rather than those who are unemployed having poorer mental health [15]. There was also a possibility of bias resulting from self-reported information.…”

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“…Some longitudinal studies have shown that higher levels of depression and unemployment are not just correlated, but that higher levels of depression are a result of unemployment [11,13,14]. Other prospective studies have found that poor mental health contributes to unemployment [15]. A study by Montgomery et al [11] showed that subjects who had recently become unemployed had an adjusted relative risk of 2.10 for depression and anxiety compared to those who had not recently become unemployed.…”

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The Impact of Unemployment on Mental and Physical Health, Access to Health Care and Health Risk Behaviors

2012

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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of employment status and unemployment duration on perceived health, access to health care, and health risk behaviors. Data from Nevada's 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) were analyzed. We compared participants who were unemployed (greater than and less than one year) to those who were employed and those who were voluntarily out of the labor force (OLF). Unemployed participants had significantly worse perceived mental health profiles, were more likely to delay health care services due to cost, and were less likely to have access to health care than employed participants and OLF participants. OLF participants were not significantly different from employed participants.

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“…that health affects unemployment. Butterworth et al (2012) demonstrate this on the relationship between mental health and unemployment where bad mental health increases the risk of unemployment and prolongs its duration. The best recent analysis comes from Schmitz (2011) who concludes that unemployment is strongly correlated with health condition but the causal effect is not significant.…”

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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Unemployment on Health

Stroukal¹

2016

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This paper examines the relationship between health and unemployment on individual panel data for the Czech Republic between 2008 and 2011. Foreign research comes up with two possible directions: that unemployment worsens health and that for people with poor health it is more difficult to find jobs, the healthy worker effect. In many models based on representative data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, it has been verified that unemployment actually worsens health. Conversely, healthy worker effect could not be verified. Finally, it was found that the relationship from unemployment to poorer health is greater among men than women. Keywords:Unemployment, health, Czech Republic, healthy worker effect, gender, self-reported health, labor market. JEL Classification: J64, J70, I10 Authors:DOMINIK STROUKAL, Department of Economics, University of Economics, Česká republika, Email: dominikstroukal@gmail.com Citation: Sciences, Vol. V(2), pp. 55-68., 10.20472/ES.2016.5.2.004 55 Copyright © 2016, DOMINIK STROUKAL, dominikstroukal@gmail.com DOMINIK STROUKAL (2016). A longitudinal analysis of the effect of unemployment on health. International Journal of Economic IntroductionThe relationship between unemployment and health is well documented. It has been shown that employed people are healthier (Ross & Mirowsky, 1995) and a positive relationship has been discovered between employment and good health -both mental health (Cai & Kalb, 2006) and physical health (Ahs & Westerling, 2006). Conversely, unemployed people are of worse health (Dooley, Fielding, & Levi, 1996). An extensive summary is put forth by Marmont a Wilkinson (2006).Longitudinal research makes for a significant progress in uncovering the relationship between unemployment and health. Groundbreakers include for example Berkman (1984), who demonstrates the relationship between unemployment and premature death, Aneshensel (1985) for depressions, or generally between unemployment and health shown on longitudinal data by Bolton and Oatley (1987) or Frese and Mohr (1987). Montgomery et al. (1999), for example, showed that newly-unemployed people face more than two times higher a risk of depression as opposed to employed people. The same results were obtained even after discarding people who suffered from depression before an employment status change. Recent studies by Diette et al. (2012) or Binder and Coad (2014) show the negative relationship between transition into unemployment on wellbeing even though the later study shows that the effect on a comprehensive well-being variable is smaller than on typical life satisfaction variables. This paper continues in this line of work and puts forth a longitudinal analysis of the relationship between unemployment and health for the Czech Republic. The present analysis is based on subjectively measured self-reported health.Longitudinal research is crucial for determining the relationship between unemployment and health. With short-run research, it is very difficult to tell if ...

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Poor mental health influences risk and duration of unemployment: a prospective study

Cited by 142 publications

References 27 publications

The effect of ill health and socioeconomic status on labor force exit and re-employment: a prospective study with ten years follow-up in the Netherlands

The effect of ill health and socioeconomic status on labor force exit and re-employment: a prospective study with ten years follow-up in the Netherlands

The Impact of Unemployment on Mental and Physical Health, Access to Health Care and Health Risk Behaviors

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Unemployment on Health

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