The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK

Michele Belloni, Ludovico Carrino and Elena Meschi

Labour Economics, 2022, vol. 76, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Conditions Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our empirical strategy accounts for the endogenous sorting of individuals into occupations by including individual fixed effects. We address the potential endogeneity of occupational change over time by focusing only on individuals who remain in the same occupation (ISCO 3-digit), exploiting the variation in working conditions within each occupation over time. This variation, determined primarily by general macroeconomic conditions, is likely to be exogenous from the individual point of view.

Keywords: Mental health; Working conditions; Job demand; Job control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J24 J28 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102176

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