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Labour market status and well-being during the great recession: a changing relationship? -PhD thesis-

[…] health. Aggregate positive psychological health was associated with a recession period decline, in contrast to SWB which remained stable. Labour market statuses were found to moderate the impact of recession. People who were economically inactive were associated with the largest declines in positive psychological health during the recession period, compared to the pre-recession period, […]

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex – written evidence (ASC0059) [House of Lords. Adult Social Care Committee. Adult social care inquiry]

Key Points: Research using Understanding Society data has shown: 1) The impact of being a carer on young carers can compound existing inequalities, and costs the country £1bn+ per year. Better state provision would reduce these impacts. 2) Of the two million carers aged 65 or over, 417,000 of them are 80+. They are […]

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ethnic minorities in Manchester: lessons from the early stage of the pandemic

[…] to studies of pre-COVID-19 economic and ethnic composition in Manchester and in the combined authority area of Greater Manchester. We then make inferences about the pandemic’s short-term impact specific to the city region. Greater Manchester has seen some of the highest rates of COVID-19 and as a result faced particularly stringent “lockdown” regulations. Manchester […]

Can encouraging respondents to contact interviewers to make appointments reduce fieldwork effort? Evidence from a randomized experiment in the UK

[…] received an appeal to their altruistic tendencies that emphasized that being an “early bird” would make their interviewer’s life easier. A parallel experiment sought to evaluate the impact of differential standard incentives on response. The early-bird take-up rate was higher for the incentivized group (10 percent compared with 6 percent for the non-incentivized group) […]

Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-19

Rationale: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on different population cohorts and which personality traits affected individual’s coping responses can help identify strategies to promote self-directed behaviours, thereby enhancing and maintaining individual’s mental well-being. Objective: Using longitudinal data for the UK, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals’ mental well-being, focusing on […]

Well-being and unemployment during the Great Recession: an empirical analysis across UK local authority districts

[…] that unemployment has a large negative effect on psychological well-being. However, unique social norms develop in geographical areas with high unemployment rates, which significantly reduce the negative impact of unemployment on well-being. Though the post-2007 Great Recession period was characterized by widespread unemployment, few studies have examined the impact of this crisis on well-being […]