Feeling useless: the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession

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 labor market. Our results sugges...

Full description

Bibliographic details

Volume:	7
Main Author:	Farré, Lídia Fasani, Francesco Mueller, Hannes
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Springer Open 27.09.2018 SpringerOpen
published in:	IZA journal of labor economics Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 34
Data of publication:	2018-09-27
ISSN:	2193-8997 2193-8997
EISSN:	2193-8997
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Industrial psychology Manpower policy Global Financial Crisis, 2008 Crisi econòmica, 2008 Mental health Salut mental Treballadors de la construcció Política d'ocupació Unemployment Psicologia del treball Atur Construction workers Great Recession Hysteresis
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	CrossRef Recercat Directory of Open Access Journals Database information Databases - DBIS