Insecure Work and the Mental Health of Workers and their Families

本项目旨在通过将先进的计量经济学方法应用于大型调查和行政数据集以及新收集的调查数据，探讨不安全工作与心理健康之间的关系。该项目预计将提供因果政策相关的估计，说明不安全的工作如何影响工人及其家庭的福祉，以及对谁的影响最有害。它还希望了解心理健康状况如何影响人们进入的工作类型。这应该会带来显著的好处，包括改善现有工作场所和就业计划所需的证据，以及确保援助有效地针对最需要的工人和行业的证据。

This project aims to explore the relationship between insecure work and mental health by applying advanced econometric methods to large survey and administrative datasets, and newly collected survey data. This project expects to provide causal policy-relevant estimates of how insecure work is affecting the wellbeing of workers and their families, and for whom the effects are most harmful. It also expects to inform on how poor mental health influences the types of jobs that people enter into. This should provide significant benefits, including evidence needed to improve existing workplace and employment programs, and evidence ensuring that assistance is efficiently targeted to those workers and industries with the greatest need.