Insecure Work and the Mental Health of Workers and their Families

本项目旨在通过运用先进的计量经济学方法对大型调查和管理数据集以及新收集的调查数据进行分析，探讨不安全工作与心理健康之间的关系。本项目希望提供与政策相关的因果估计，以了解不安全的工作如何影响工人及其家庭的福祉，以及这种影响对谁最有害。它还希望了解不良心理健康如何影响人们从事的工作类型。这将带来显著的好处，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那些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.