Engelsk titel: Unemployment and mental health : evidence from research in the Nordic countries
Författare:
Björklund, Anders
;
Eriksson, T.
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 80
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 62465
Sammanfattning
In this article the authors examine research on effects of unemployment on mental health in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The authors describe studies that use cross-sectional, longitudinal and time-series data, and discuss studies that investigated the duration-dependence issue in exit rates out of unemployment. Not surprisingly, cross-sectional studies reveal that unemployed persons have worse mental health than do others. Most longitudinal studies suggest that unemployment is associated with deteriorating mental health, even though it is somewhat unclear how long such an effect persist. Most duration-dependence studies were done using Swedish data. It turns out that unemployment benefits and labour-market policies affect the pattern of exit rates out of unemployment.