Employment rates varied substantially by mental illness severity in 2009-2010. Even during times of high unemployment seriously mentally ill college graduates had relatively strong employment outcomes. Unemployment rates spike among people with serious mental illness over age 50, even compared to age-matched peers. It is for these very reasons that the Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) is conducting a Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) to determine the effects of unemployment on mental health. The information generated through the ISE over the next six months will link unemployment and mental health. Unemployment is one of many factors that influence health. It can lead to a low income, which can lead to poor housing, which can change social networks, which can limit access to social supports, and so on. All of these social factors are related to mental health and substance use. This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job losses in different segments of the Spanish labor market. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percentage points due to the breakdown in
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