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Opinion: Anxiety and depression are key in keeping the long-term unemployed out of work

13 May 2014

When the London School of Economics looked at the issues that hold people in long-term unemployment, common mental health difficulties like anxiety and depression were the largest cause. This operates as feedback loop. The longer someone is out of work, the more likely they are to become depressed and the longer someone is depressed, the harder they find it to get back to work. This can cause long-term unemployment, independently of the economic situation. Initially this is an economic problem causing a mental health problem but, relatively quickly, it becomes a mental health problem causing an economic problem.

This article was published online by TheJournal.ie on May 13, 2014
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Related Publications
'Mental Health: The New Frontier for Labour Economics', Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1213, May 2013

Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programmewebpage

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