Is changing status through housing tenure associated with changes in mental health? Results from the British Household Panel Survey

Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from workplaces without union presence or with inactive unions, both union-covered non-members and union members in workplaces with active unions earn higher monthly income, are more likely to have a written contract, be covered by social insurances, receive fringe benefits, express work-related grievances through official channels, feel more satisfied with their lives, and are less likely to have mental health problems.

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Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: prospective evidence from the British household panel survey 1991-2001

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health ◽

10.1136/jech.2003.009878 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 58 (6) ◽

pp. 501-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 127

Author(s):

M Bartley

Keyword(s):

Employment Status ◽

British Household Panel Survey ◽

Panel Survey ◽

Employment Conditions

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Does personality moderate reaction and adaptation to major life events? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Journal of Research in Personality ◽

10.1016/j.jrp.2012.05.005 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (5) ◽

pp. 477-488 ◽

Cited By ~ 67

Author(s):

Stevie C.Y. Yap ◽

Ivana Anusic ◽

Richard E. Lucas

Keyword(s):

Life Events ◽

British Household Panel Survey ◽

Panel Survey ◽

Major Life Events ◽

Major Life ◽

Moderate Reaction

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Paid employment and common mental disorders in 50–64-year olds: analysis of three cross-sectional nationally representative survey samples in 1993, 2000 and 2007

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences ◽

10.1017/s2045796017000403 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 88-99

Author(s):

G. Perera ◽

G. Di Gessa ◽

L. M. Corna ◽

K. Glaser ◽

R. Stewart

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Employment Status ◽

Common Mental Disorders ◽

Common Mental Disorder ◽

Psychiatric Morbidity ◽

Housing Tenure ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Paid Employment ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Over Time

Aims.Associations between employment status and mental health are well recognised, but evidence is sparse on the relationship between paid employment and mental health in the years running up to statutory retirement ages using robust mental health measures. In addition, there has been no investigation into the stability over time in this relationship: an important consideration if survey findings are used to inform future policy. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between employment status and common mental disorder (CMD) in 50–64-year old residents in England and its stability over time, taking advantage of three national mental health surveys carried out over a 14-year period.Methods.Data were analysed from the British National Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity of 1993, 2000 and 2007. Paid employment status was the primary exposure of interest and CMD the primary outcome – both ascertained identically in all three surveys (CMD from the revised Clinical Interview Schedule). Multivariable logistic regression models were used.Results.The prevalence of CMD was higher in people not in paid employment across all survey years; however, this association was only present for non-employment related to poor health as an outcome and was not apparent in those citing other reasons for non-employment. Odds ratios for the association between non-employment due to ill health and CMD were 3.05 in 1993, 3.56 in 2000, and 2.80 in 2007, after adjustment for age, gender, marital status, education, social class, housing tenure, financial difficulties, smoking status, recent physical health consultation and activities of daily living impairment.Conclusions.The prevalence of CMD was higher in people not in paid employment for health reasons, but was not associated with non-employment for other reasons. Associations had been relatively stable in strength from 1993 to 2007 in those three cross-sectional nationally representative samples.

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The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK

Comparative Population Studies ◽

10.12765/cpos-2013-10 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Peteke Feijten ◽

Maarten Van Ham

Keyword(s):

Residential Mobility ◽

Regression Models ◽

Disruptive Effect ◽

British Household Panel Survey ◽

Union Dissolution ◽

Panel Survey ◽

Housing Situation ◽

Spatial Mobility ◽

Logistic Regression Models ◽

The Uk

Union dissolution is well known to have a disruptive effect on the housing situation of those involved, and often leads to downward moves on the “housing ladder”. Much less is known about the geographies of residential mobility after union dissolution. There are, however, reasons to expect that those who experienced a union dissolution have a different likelihood of moving over longer distances than those who stay in a union, because of different moving motives. This study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the occurrences of moves, distances moved and the destinations of moves after union dissolution. The paper also contributes to the literature by investigating the effect on mobility not only of divorce, but also of splitting up and repartnering. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and logistic regression models, we found that union dissolution has a significant effect on the occurrence of moves and on moving distances.

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