Mental Health and Labor Market Outcomes

描述(申请人提供)：此项目调查关系 在精神健康障碍和个人的劳动力市场结果之间，例如 如劳动力参与度、工作周转率、工作时数和收入，使用 横截面和面板数据技术。该项目将支付特别费用 关注低收入人群及心理健康状况对 参与福利、残疾和其他公共援助计划。 该项目建立在一项新的全国性调查数据的基础上，该调查名为 社区(HCC)，其独特之处在于其覆盖范围广泛，既包括心理健康 和经济措施。它的政策相关性源于研究能力 最近的市场和政策影响，并追踪劳工的后果 保险地位和收入对市场结果的中介作用 为精神障碍患者提供护理和利用的机会。实现 更好地理解横截面和动态关系 心理健康和劳动力市场结果对政策至关重要。 心理健康领域的制造者。在以就业为基础的美国私人医疗保健 保险制度、劳动力市场结果和收入影响获得护理和 通过它们对保险和收入的影响进行治疗。此外，劳工 市场结果本身就是核心的功能结果。通过提供 更好地了解精神疾病和分娩之间的复杂关系 市场成果利用最新数据，本项目将提供新的 对最近和正在进行的政策和市场变化的后果的见解， 包括以就业为基础的精神健康平等要求和社会福利 针对低收入人群的政策。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project investigates the relationship between mental health disorders and an individual's labor market outcomes, such as labor force participation, job turnover, hours worked, and earnings, using both cross-sectional and panel data techniques. The project will pay special attention to low income populations and the effect of mental health status on participation in welfare, disability, and other public assistance programs. This project builds on data from a new national survey, Healthcare for Communities (HCC), which is unique in its broad coverage of both mental health and economic measures. Its policy relevance stems from the ability to study recent market and policy effects and to trace the consequences from labor market outcomes through the mediating effects of insurance status and income to access to care and utilization for individuals with mental disorders. Achieving a better understanding of the cross-sectional and dynamic relationships between mental health and labor market outcomes is of central importance to policy makers in the mental health field. In the employment-based US private health insurance system, labor market outcomes and income affect access to care and treatment through their effect on insurance and income. In addition, labor market outcomes are central functional outcomes in themselves. By providing better information on the complex relationship between mental illness and labor market outcomes using the most recent data, this project will provide new insights on the consequences of recent and ongoing policy and market changes, including employment-based mental health parity mandates and social welfare policy for low income populations.