TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bubonya, Melisa
AU  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
AU  - Wooden, Mark
        TI  - A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents
        PY  - 2014/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8588
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8588
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - spouses
KW  - families
KW  - mental health
KW  - involuntary job loss
KW  - unemployment
KW  - adolescents
KW  - HILDA Survey
        ER  -