TY - JOUR
T1 - How did the 2008-11 financial crisis affect work-related common mental distress? Evidence from 393 workplaces in Great Britain
AU - Kronenberg, Christoph
AU - Boehnke, Jan
N1 - CK gratefully acknowledges funding from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) Förderkennzeichen (Grant number):01EH1602A via institutional funding for CINCH (Competent IN Competition and Health). CK thanks the German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ) for part-funding the presentation of this work at iHEA 2017 in Boston, USA.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - This paper analyses how the 2008-11 financial crisis relates to work-related common mental distress of those with continuous employment during the crisis. The literature connecting the 2008-11 financial crisis to common mental distress (anti-depressant drug use, suicide, etc.) generally estimates a negative effect. We used a sample of 393 workplaces from the 2011 Work and Employment Relations Study (WERS) for which employers and worker representatives agreed on that the crisis affected the workplace. WERS then provides detailed questions about how the financial crisis affected the workplace. We use these questions to show which crisis-induced work-changes are important for work related common mental distress. In the British-context, increased workload and changes in non-financial benefits of work are most relevant worsening work-related common mental distress by 1.8 and 0.9 on a scale from 0-30 respectively.
AB - This paper analyses how the 2008-11 financial crisis relates to work-related common mental distress of those with continuous employment during the crisis. The literature connecting the 2008-11 financial crisis to common mental distress (anti-depressant drug use, suicide, etc.) generally estimates a negative effect. We used a sample of 393 workplaces from the 2011 Work and Employment Relations Study (WERS) for which employers and worker representatives agreed on that the crisis affected the workplace. WERS then provides detailed questions about how the financial crisis affected the workplace. We use these questions to show which crisis-induced work-changes are important for work related common mental distress. In the British-context, increased workload and changes in non-financial benefits of work are most relevant worsening work-related common mental distress by 1.8 and 0.9 on a scale from 0-30 respectively.
KW - 2008-11 financial crisis
KW - 2011 WERS
KW - Common mental distress
KW - Economic shock
KW - Recession
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063761465&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ehb.2019.02.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ehb.2019.02.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 30959347
SN - 1570-677X
VL - 33
SP - 193
EP - 200
JO - Economics and Human Biology
JF - Economics and Human Biology
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