THE EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN PANEL DATA
THE EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN PANEL DATA
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.3083
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Shields, Michael A.
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作者：
Frijters, Paul;Johnston, David W.;Shields, Michael A.
心理健康状况不佳在多大程度上影响就业结果？研究这一问题涉及多个技术难题：健康与工作之间的双向因果关系、不可观察的混杂因素以及心理健康调查测量中的测量误差。我们试图通过将10波高质量的面板数据与允许个人水平固定效应的工具变量模型相结合来克服这些困难。我们关注的是广泛的就业率，我们发现有证据表明，心理健康水平下降一个标准差，就业率就会下降30个百分点。进一步的调查表明，这种影响主要是供应方面的反应，而不是需求方面的反应，对老年工人的影响大于年轻工人。版权所有（C）2014约翰威利父子有限公司
To what extent does poor mental health affect employment outcomes? Answering this question involves multiple technical difficulties: two-way causality between health and work, unobservable confounding factors and measurement error in survey measures of mental health. We attempt to overcome these difficulties by combining 10 waves of high-quality panel data with an instrumental variable model that allows for individual-level fixed effects. We focus on the extensive margin of employment, and we find evidence that a one-standard-deviation decline in mental health reduces employment by 30 percentage points. Further investigations suggest that this effect is predominantly a supply rather than a demand-side response and is larger for older than young workers. Copyright (C) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.