scholarly journals Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession' and mental health in Scotland 2007-2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (suppl_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Pearce ◽  
S Curtis ◽  
M Cherrie ◽  
C Dibben ◽  
N Cunningham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Local Areas

What's Seen and Unseen

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Claudia Marie Bertolone-Smith ◽  
Ana Maria Spagna
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Increased Pressure

Using the authors' varied experiences in the classroom with Gen Z and the next generation on its way, this chapter investigates an urgent and often unseen issue for students in higher education. With increased pressure to perform, a tension between time and technology, and lasting impacts from the Great Recession, Gen Z students suffer from a growing number of mental health issues. College coursework should challenge students; however, Gen Z often becomes impaired by what is a real and prevalent anxiety. The authors explore the ways Gen Z operates in the classroom, potential causes for this crisis, and solutions to improve Gen Z experiences in our institutions.

Social class and mental health

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
M. Harvey Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression

The Great Depression saw increasingly higher rates of mental disorder at successively lower social class levels. These findings have been repeated over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dynamic interpretations of these relations have concentrated on vulnerability to economic crises, resulting in major increases in mental hospitalization and suicide. These studies have shown psychological morbidity and suicide to be strongly influenced by employment and income loss. Did the Great Recession re-enact the Great Depression’s mental health crisis for world societies? Recent literature shows substantially elevated psychological disorder in the Great Recession across industrialized societies. New multivariate analyses, using gross domestic product declines and unemployment increases as the main recessional indicators, find that world suicide and industrialized country overall mortality rates increased owing to the Great Recession and government austerity. A paradigm is presented of the circular relations linking economic crises, social class, and the interactive relations of mental and physical health.

scholarly journals The inevitable deservingness gap: A study into the insurmountable immigrant penalty in perceived welfare deservingness

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Reeskens ◽  
Tom van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
Vignette Experiment

As the asylum crisis hit Europe in tandem with the Great Recession, concerns about declining support for equal welfare provision to immigrants grow. Although studies on welfare deservingness show that immigrants are deemed least entitled to welfare compared to other target groups, they have fallen short of isolating welfare claimants’ identity (i.e. foreign origin) with competing deservingness criteria that might explain the immigrant deservingness gap. This article studies the importance of welfare claimants’ foreign origins relative to other theoretically relevant deservingness criteria via a unique vignette experiment among 23,000 Dutch respondents about their preferred levels of unemployment benefits. We show that foreign origin is among the three most important conditions for reduced solidarity, after labour market reintegration behaviour (reciprocity) and culpability for unemployment (control). Furthermore, favourable criteria do not close the gap between immigrants and natives in perceived deservingness, emphasizing the difficulty of overcoming the immigrant penalty in perceived welfare deservingness. We conclude our findings in the light of ongoing theoretical and political debates.

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