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

Nursel Aydiner-Avsar and Chiara Piovani

Forum for Social Economics, 2021, vol. 50, issue 4, 505-529

Abstract: In the last thirty years, in the context of structural changes in the global economy, mental health has become a major public health concern worldwide. Using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data for 2013 and 2014, this article evaluates the relationship between the labor market and psychological well-being in the United States from a gender perspective. More specifically, this article uses a logit regression methodology to estimate the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of developing depression and anxiety for both men and women. The findings of this analysis indicate that unemployment has a similar, negative effect on the mental health of both men and women. This is consistent with the predictions of the dual breadwinner model, on the basis of which both men and women shoulder the financial responsibilities of the household, and is relevant for policy considerations.

Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/07360932.2018.1535991 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:50:y:2021:i:4:p:505-529

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RFSE20

DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2018.1535991

Access Statistics for this article

Forum for Social Economics is currently edited by William Milberg, Dr Wolfram Elsner, Philip O'Hara, Cecilia Winters and Paolo Ramazzotti

More articles in Forum for Social Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().