%0 Report
        %A Bubonya, Melisa
%A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
%A Wooden, Mark
        %T A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8588
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8588
        %X This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job loss. The mental well-being of wives, however, declines following their husbands' job loss, but only if that job loss results in a sustained period of non-employment or if the couple experienced financial hardship or relationship strain prior to the husband's job loss. A negative effect of parental job loss on the mental health of co-resident adolescent children is also found, but appears to be restricted to girls.
        %K spouses
%K families
%K mental health
%K involuntary job loss
%K unemployment
%K adolescents
%K HILDA Survey