Mental health: The new frontier for labour economics

This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also affects earnings and educational success. But, most strik...

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Published in:IZA journal of labor policy 2013-01, Vol.2 (1), p.1-16, Article 2
Main Author: Layard, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absenteeism
Arbeitsproduktivität
Chronic illnesses
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral factors
Cohort analysis
Cost analysis
Cost control
Drugs
Earnings
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employment
Family income
Gesundheit
Good news
Health problems
Health services
Health status
Households
Illnesses
Labor Economics
Life course
Life events
Life satisfaction
Makroökonomischer Einfluss
Medical treatment
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental health care
Original Article
Population Economics
Prevention
Psychische Störung
Social Policy
Social welfare
Society
Taxation
Therapy
Treatment methods
Treatment programs
Well being
Welt
Zufriedenheit
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