Health and Unemployment

Unemployment and mental health

mental health since the Great Depression of the 1930s, if not earlier. One example is a 1938 review paper by Eisenberg and Lazarsfeld. They concluded that unemployment “tends to make people more emotionally unstable than they were previous to unemployment” (p. 359). There has been a great deal of research on the subject since then. Sorting out the effects of unemployment on mental health is com...

Unemployment and health.

The detrimental effects of unemployment were widely recognised after the great depression of the 1930s. However, by the early 1980s unemployment became viewed, as it was by some in the very early 1930s, as a "price worth paying." We learnt through bitter experience again that it was not. By 2009 even the leader of the British Conservative Party argued that, "Unemployment is never a price worth ...

The Effect of Unemployment on Health Capital

Abstract T his paper has considered the impact of unemployment on health capital in 136 countries during 2002–2010. The review of presented literature on health capital shows that the life expectancy has been considered as a proxy for health capital. Although, there are numerous studies that surveyed the mental and physical effects of unemployment, but there is no previous study in ou...

Insights on unemployment, unemployment insurance, and mental health.

This paper contributes to the growing literature on the relationship between business cycles and mental health. It is one of the first applications in the economics literature to incorporate data on web searches from Google Insights for Search, and these unique data allow the opportunity to estimate the association between weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims, in addition to monthly unempl...

Health effects of unemployment