Current Unemployment, Unemployment History, and Mental Health: A Fixed-Effects Model Approach.

ABSTRACT: Poor mental health among the unemployed-the long-term unemployed in particular-is established, but these associations may be driven by confounding from unobserved, time-invariant characteristics such as past experiences and personality. Using longitudinal register data on 2,720,431 residents aged 30-60 years, we assessed how current unemployment and unemployment history predict visits to specialized care due to psychiatric conditions and self-harm in Finland in 2008-2018. We used linear ordinary-least-squares and fixed-effects models. Prior to adjusting for time-invariant characteristics, current unemployment was associated with poor mental health, and the risk increased with longer unemployment histories. Accounting for all time-invariant characteristics with the fixed-effects models, the

SUBMITTER: Junna L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347014 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature