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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health: Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due to differences in data, methods, samples, and institutional settings. Taking a more general approach, we provide comparable evidence for four countries with different institutional settings Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US using a nonparametric bounds analysis. Relying on fairly weak and partially testable assumptions, our paper shows that unemployment has a significant negative effect on mental health in all countries. Our results rule out effects larger than a quarter of a standard deviation for Germany and half a standard deviation for the Anglo-Saxon countries. The effect is significant for both men and women and materialises already for short periods of unemployment. Public policy should hence focus on early prevention of mental health problems among the unemployed.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10652
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- Subject
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mental health
unemployment
bounds
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
Kühnle, Daniel
Oberfichtner, Michael
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
- Kühnle, Daniel
- Oberfichtner, Michael
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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