698
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The Gender Impact of Unemployment on Mental Health: A Micro Analysis for the United States

&
Pages 505-529 | Received 07 Nov 2017, Accepted 09 Oct 2018, Published online: 22 Jan 2019

References

  • Albelda, R., & Drago, R. (2013). Unlevel playing fields: Understanding wage inequality and discrimination. Boston, MA: Dollars and Sense.
  • Aneshensel, C. S., Frerichs, R. R., & Clark, V. A. (1981). Family roles and sex differences in depression. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 22,379–393.
  • Artazcoz, L., Benach, J., Borrell, C., & Cortès, I. C. (2004). Unemployment and mental health: Understanding the interactions among gender, family roles, and social class. American Journal of Public Health, 94,82–88.
  • Bakke, E. W. (1934). The unemployed man: A social study. New York, NY: Dutton.
  • Barnay, T. (2014). Health, work and working conditions: A review of the European economic literature. OECD Economics Department Working Papers (No. 1148). Paris: OECD Publishing. doi:https://doi.org/10.1787/5jz0zb71xhmr-en.
  • Barnett, R. C. (1992). Gender, multiple roles and psychological distress (Paper No. 248). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Centers for Women.
  • Bloom, D. E., Cafiero, E. T., Jané-Llopis, E., Abrahams-Gessel, S., Bloom, L. R., Fathima, S., … Weinstein, C. (2011). The global economic burden of noncommunicable diseases. Geneva: World Economic Forum.
  • Buckley, N. J., Denton, F. T., Robb, A. L., & Spencer, B. G. (2004). The transition from good to poor health: An econometric study of the older population. Journal of Health Economics, 23,1013–1034.
  • Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. (2015). Behavioral health trends in the United States: Results from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. SMA 15-4927, NSDUH Series H-50). Retrieved from http://www.samhsa.gov/data/
  • Cleary, P. D., & Mechanic, D. (1983). Sex differences in psychological distress among married people. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24,111–121.
  • Cooper, D., McCausland, W. D., & Theodossiou, I. (2015). Is unemployment and low income harmful to health? Evidence from Britain. Review of Social Economy, 73,34–60.
  • Dagher, R. K., Chen, J., & Thomas, S. B. (2015). Gender differences in mental health outcomes before, during, and after the Great Recession. PLoS ONE, 10,e0124103. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124103.
  • Davalos, M. E., & French, M. T. (2011). This recession is wearing me out: health-related quality of life and economic downturns. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 14, 61–82.
  • Ensminger, M., & Celentano, D. (1990). Gender differences in the effect of unemployment on psychological distress. Social Science & Medicine, 30,469–477.
  • Fryer, D. (1986). Employment deprivation and personal agency during unemployment. Social Behaviour, 1,3–23.
  • Gupta, A. E., & Huston, A. C. (2009). Depressive symptoms and economic outcomes of low-income women: A review of the social causation, social selection, and interactionist hypotheses. Social Issues and Policy Review, 3,103–140.
  • Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (Eds.). (2013). World happiness report. New York: Earth Institute.
  • Jahoda, M., Lazarsfeld, P. F., Zeisel, H., & Fleck, C. (1933/2002). Marienthal: The sociography of an unemployed community. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
  • Jahoda, M. (1982). Employment and unemployment: A social psychological analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jenkins, R., Fitch, C., Hurlston, M., & Walker, F. (2009). Recession, debt and mental health: Challenges and solutions. Mental Health in Family Medicine, 6,85–90.
  • Kessler, R. C., & McRae Jr., J. A.(1982). The effect of wives’ employment on the mental health of married men and women. American Sociological Review, 74,216–227.
  • Komarovsky, M. (1940). The Unemployed man and his family: The effect of unemployment upon the status of the man in fifty-nine families. New York, NY: The Dryden Press.
  • Latif, E. (2015). The impact of economic downturn on mental health in Canada. International Journal of Social Economics, 2,33–46.
  • Leeflang, R. L. I., Klein-Hfsselink, D. J., & Spruit, I. P. (1992). Health effects of unemployment-II. Men and women. Social Science & Medicine, 34,351–363.
  • Liu, L., MacPhail, F., & Dong, Xiao-yuan (2018). Gender, work burden, and mental-health in post-reform China. Feminist Economics, 24(2),194–217.
  • Lynch, J. W., Kaplan, G. A., & Shema, S. J. (1997). Cumulative impact of sustained economic hardship on physical, cognitive, psychological, and social functioning. The New England Journal of Medicine, 337,1889–1895.
  • McKee-Ryan, F. M., Song, Z., Wanberg, C. R., & Kinicki, A. J. (2005). Psychological and physical well-being during unemployment: A meta-analytic study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90,53–76.
  • Murray, C., Vos, R., Lozano, R., Naghavi, M., Flaxman, A., Michaud, C., … Lopez, A. (2012). Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet, 380,2197–2223.
  • Mutari, E., Power, M., & Figart, D. (2002). “Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women’s Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912–1938.”. Feminist Economics, 8,37–61.
  • Norström, F., Virtanen, P., Hammarström, A., Gustafsson, P. E., & Janlert, U. (2014). How does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects. BMC Public Health, 14,1310. doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1310
  • Paul, K.I., & Moser, K. (2009). Unemployment impairs mental health: Meta-analyses. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74,264–282.
  • Piovani, C., & Aydiner-Avsar, N. (2015). The 2008/09 Economic Crisis: The impact on psychological well-being in the USA. Forum for Social Economic, 44,18–45.
  • Pregibon, D. (1980). Goodness of link tests for generalized linear models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 29,15–23.
  • Roehrig, C. (2016). Mental disorders top the list of the most costly conditions in the United States: $201 billion. Health Affairs, 35,1130–1135.
  • Rosenfield, S. (1980). Sex differences in depression: Do women always have higher rates? Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 21,33–42.
  • Simon, R.W. (1995). Gender, multiple roles, role meaning, and mental health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 36(June),182–194.
  • Strandh, M., Hammarström, A., Nillson, K., Nordenmark, M., & Russel, H. (2013). Unemployment, gender and mental health: The role of the gender regime. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35,649–665.
  • Stuckler, D., Basu, S., Suhrcke, M., & Coutts, A. (2011). Effects of the 2008 Recession on health: A first look at European data. The Lancet, 378,124–125.
  • Thomas, C., Benzeval, M., & Stansfeld, S.A. (2005). Employment transitions and mental health: An analysis from the British Household Panel Survey. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59,243–249.
  • Tukey, J.W. (1949). One degree of freedom for non-additivity. Biometrics, 5,232–242.
  • Warr, P.B. (1987). Work, unemployment, and mental health. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Whelan, C.T., Hannan, D.F., & Creighton, S. (1991). Unemployment, poverty and psychological distress (General Research Series, Paper No. 150). Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute.
  • Wolff, R. (2013). Capitalism hits the fan. Northampton, MA: Interlink Pub Group.
  • World Health Organization. (2001). World health report—Mental health: New understanding, new hope. Geneva: World Economic Organization.
  • World Health Organization. (2011). Impact of economic crises on mental health. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organization: Regional Office for Europe.
  • World Health Organization and The World Bank. (2016). Investing in treatment for depression and anxiety leads to fourfold return. Media Centre. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/depression-anxiety-treatment/en/

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.