Unemployment, sanctions and mental health
The Relationship Between Benefit Sanctions and Antidepressant Prescribing
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2116115 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Evan Williams (0000-0003-3673-5714, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 1-20 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279419000783 |
| OpenAlex | W2982101113 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 15 |
| Referências citadas | 30 |
International social security systems increasingly place work-related conditions on individuals claiming out-of-work benefits, and enforce requirements through the use of benefit sanctions. The literature on the impacts of benefit sanctions considers both labour market and wider social effects, which this study contributes to through a focus on mental health. It considers the period of Coalition government (2010-15) in the UK, which imposed a comparatively high number of benefit sanctions and increased their severity through the Welfare Reform Act 2012. A longitudinal dataset is constructed using quarterly local authority-level data on Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanctions and antidepressant prescriptions in England. Results from fixed effects analyses indicate that, in the post-reform period, every 10 additional sanctions are associated with 4.57 additional antidepressant prescribing items (95% CI: 2.14 to 6.99), which translates to approximately one additional person receiving treatment. Importantly, this finding indicates that sanctions are associated with both adverse mental health impacts and wider public expenditure implications, which motivates further investigation at the individual-level. In addition, punitive sanctions form a core part of the new Universal Credit (UC) and so the results suggest the need to reassess the use of sanctions within the contemporary social security system
Business · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Public economics · Sanctions · Social security · Welfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Law · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
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| Citações por ano | 3 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 14 |