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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bubonya, Melisa
• Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
• Ribar, David C.

Titel

The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status

Ist Teil von

• Economics and human biology, 2019-12, Vol.35, p.96-106

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Depressive symptoms contribute to men’s and women’s employment problems.•No evidence that employment problems contribute to men’s depressive symptoms.•Limited evidence that employment problems contribute to women’s depressive symptoms.•Analyze longitudinal survey data and employment measures drawn from job calendars. This paper analyzes the reciprocal lagged relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms contribute to a 25.6% increase in subsequent non-employment rates, a 20.7% increase in non-participation rates and 34.2% increase in unemployment rates, for men. Similar, although weaker, marginal effects are found for women. However, we find no evidence for men and only limited evidence for women that unemployment, non-employment, or non-participation raises the risks of severe depressive symptoms. We observe an impact of labor market status on depressive symptoms only when using point-in-time measures.