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...
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| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018
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