The ‘double precarity’ of employment insecurity and unaffordable housing and its impact on mental health

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker and Zoe Aitken

Social Science & Medicine, 2019, vol. 225, issue C, 9-16

Abstract: This paper describes who is most likely to experience household employment insecurity and housing affordability stress – double precarity – and estimates the degree to which housing affordability mediates the effect of employment insecurity on mental health.

Keywords: Employment insecurity; Housing affordability; Mental health; Longitudinal; Mediation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.008

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