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We examined these 4 drug classes because previous research suggests that job stress is related to the onset of generalized anxiety disorder and depression 13 and that sleep disorders and drug abuse are often precursors to depression. We focused on discontinuous changes in the trend for these 4 medication classes because evidence shows an increasing trend in their use across developed countries.
We used piecewise regression, a method used to compare trends in an outcome variable before and after a defined discontinuity, to examine changes in trends after We accounted for individual-level unobservable time-invariant characteristics e. We also accounted for area-level changes in the unemployment rate. We explored the extent to which heightened job insecurity, caused by local plant layoffs, may have led to an increase in mental health services and treatments. We also examined the medium-term patterns in the mental health outcomes for the subset of workers who remained employed and insured through , to investigate whether any of the observed changes in mental health—related utilization were long lasting or dissipated with the improvement in the economy in to We selected workers for our sample from linked administrative personnel and claims data sets from a multisite US manufacturing firm.
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These data are described elsewhere. All employees in the sample had insurance coverage throughout the study period, ensuring access to mental health services. The firm provided health insurance benefits with identical provider networks to employees and families through a local preferred provider organization, subject to choice in family coverage and deductible rates.
Limited changes in preferred provider coverage, copays, and deductibles occurred during the study period. We used claims data to quantify utilization of mental health services and medications. For each worker, we totaled the number of encounters an individual had in each year in 2 domains: For outpatient visits, we only considered encounters that had a face-to-face visit with a doctor, as indicated by the CPT code.
We included opiates because they may be used for self-medication, especially among individuals with a history of substance abuse. Although many of these medications are prescribed for multiple diagnoses, our analysis examined deviations from the mean use for each person across the years. Therefore, if individuals consistently used these drugs for other purposes, that would not affect our results. The analysis only captured marked changes in use of these drugs. The period of our study was marked by a rapid change in the national unemployment rate.
We accounted for changes in regional labor market conditions by including the yearly county-level unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 23 as a control variable in all of our models. We used unemployment rates for the county in which each plant was located. We used the personnel data set to identify plants experiencing high layoff rates. If a plant had a mass termination event in which 40 or more employees were laid off on a single day, we considered it a high-layoff plant. We assumed that surviving employees at these 7 plants experienced greater job insecurity than did those at the 18 other plants.
We used mass termination events to categorize job instability in previous studies. We described selection on health and mental health in particular to establish that continuously employed workers were healthier than their counterparts who dropped out of the sample. This score has been used to adjust for underlying health, particularly in health services research. We also compared mental health—related inpatient and outpatient visits and use of the 4 classes of mental health—related medications for workers who remained employed and those who left in to Our primary analysis involved the cohort of continuously employed and insured workers.
We used piecewise regression, which partitioned the data into 2 intervals, allowing us to estimate a separate trend line for each interval. The boundaries between the segments are known as breakpoints. We modeled the breakpoint in , the peak of major layoffs at the company and the nadir of the gross national product nationally, comparing trends in to with those in to We therefore investigated the medium-term impacts by extending the postrecession segment from to We also included county-level unemployment rates to account for changes in the regional labor market.
Because our data included multiple observations for each individual—that is, 1 observation per person per year—we controlled for time-invariant characteristics by including a fixed-effects parameter at the individual level. The inclusion of individual-level fixed effects in the model allowed us to use only within-individual variation to identify discontinuous changes in utilization of mental health services and medications after The inclusion of the fixed effect precluded controlling for age directly, but all specifications accounted for aging by including a second- and third-degree polynomial for age.
Robust standard errors clustered at the individual level. Table 1 presents the sample characteristics for 3 groups: The second group was a subset of the first group. Table A2 available as an online supplement shows baseline differences in mental health utilization between those who left the firm and those who remained, confirming that the workers who left had higher mental health inpatient and outpatient utilization in They also used more antidepressants, anxiolytics, and opiates. Results presented here focus only on the continuously employed and insured workforce.
Table 2 presents results on inpatient visits with a mental health—related diagnosis for the to and to cohorts. The magnitude of the postrecession trend line was about 4 times as great as that of the prerecession trend line in the short term. In the medium term, the prerecession and postrecession trends were almost identical, suggesting that the increase in inpatient visits was abrupt and short lived.
Analyses were conducted with piecewise regression with a discontinuity in , with fixed effects at the individual level. Models controlled for age squared and age cubed. Table 2 also shows models that included an interaction term for working at a high-layoff plant. We found no difference in the trend among those with higher job insecurity. We documented that changes in county-level unemployment rate were related to decreases in mental health inpatient visits. Table 3 presents results for the number of outpatient visits with a mental health—related diagnosis.
The results suggested a statistically significant increase in the trends in outpatient utilization in to over to The increase in the trend remained elevated and significant, but the magnitude was substantially reduced in a comparison of the yearly increases of to and to These results were driven by a decreasing prerecession trend and a discontinuous and increasing postrecession trend.
We observed no difference between employees at high-layoff plants and those at other plants. We also documented that changes in county-level unemployment rates were related to increases in mental health outpatient visits. When we allowed for differences by plant-level layoffs, the magnitude between increases in unemployment rates and increases in mental health outpatient visits was similar across both the to and the to periods. Table 4 presents changes in the supply of opiates, antidepressants, sleep aids, and anxiolytics. Workers used more opiates, antidepressants, sleep aids, and anxiolytics in to than in to They are educational, designed to make life and learning easy.
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By , all the main economic indicators had regained the levels of the late s, except for unemployment, which remained high. In , the American economy unexpectedly fell, lasting through most of Production declined sharply, as did profits and employment. Unemployment jumped from The Federal Reserve doubled reserve requirements between August and May [58] leading to a contraction in the money supply. The Roosevelt Administration reacted by launching a rhetorical campaign against monopoly power, which was cast as the cause of the depression, and appointing Thurman Arnold to break up large trusts; Arnold was not effective, and the campaign ended once World War II began and corporate energies had to be directed to winning the war.
Employment in the private sector recovered to the level of the and continued to increase until the war came and manufacturing employment leaped from 11 million in to 18 million in Another response to the deepening of the Great Depression had more tangible results. Business-oriented observers explained the recession and recovery in very different terms from the Keynesian economists.
They argued the New Deal had been very hostile to business expansion in — They said it had encouraged massive strikes which had a negative impact on major industries and had threatened anti-trust attacks on big corporations. But all those threats diminished sharply after For example, the antitrust efforts fizzled out without major cases. The CIO and AFL unions started battling each other more than corporations, and tax policy became more favorable to long-term growth.
On the other hand, according to economist Robert Higgs, when looking only at the supply of consumer goods, significant GDP growth only resumed in Higgs does not estimate the value to consumers of collective goods like victory in war [62] To Keynesians, the war economy showed just how large the fiscal stimulus required to end the downturn of the Depression was, and it led, at the time, to fears that as soon as America demobilized, it would return to Depression conditions and industrial output would fall to its pre-war levels.
The incorrect prediction by Alvin Hansen and other Keynesians that a new depression would start after the war failed to take account of pent-up consumer demand as a result of the Depression and World War. The government began heavy military spending in , and started drafting millions of young men that year. During the war, the government subsidized wages through cost-plus contracts.
Government contractors were paid in full for their costs, plus a certain percentage profit margin. That meant the more wages a person was paid the higher the company profits since the government would cover them plus a percentage.
Using these cost-plus contracts in —, factories hired hundreds of thousands of unskilled workers and trained them, at government expense. The military's own training programs concentrated on teaching technical skills involving machinery, engines, electronics and radio, preparing soldiers and sailors for the post-war economy.
Structural walls were lowered dramatically during the war, especially informal policies against hiring women, minorities, and workers over 45 or under See FEPC Strikes except in coal mining were sharply reduced as unions pushed their members to work harder. Tens of thousands of new factories and shipyards were built, with new bus services and nursery care for children making them more accessible.
Wages soared for workers, making it quite expensive to sit at home. Employers retooled so that unskilled new workers could handle jobs that previously required skills that were now in short supply. Roosevelt's declining popularity in was evident throughout the US in the business community, the press, and the Senate and House. Many were labeling the recession the "Roosevelt Recession". In late December , Roosevelt looked to gain popularity with the American people, and try to regain the nation's confidence in the economy. His decision that December to name Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was an attempt to achieve the confidence he so badly needed.
The appointment came as a surprise to most because of Hopkins' lack of business experience, but proved to be vastly important in shaping the years following the recession. Hopkins made it his mission to strengthen ties between the Roosevelt administration and the business community. While Roosevelt believed in complete reform The New Deal , Hopkins took a more administrative position; [ clarification needed ] he felt that recovery was imperative and that The New Deal would continue to hinder recovery. With support from Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr , popular support for recovery, rather than reform, swept the nation.
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By the end of reform had been struck down, as no new reform laws were passed. The economy in America was now beginning to show signs of recovery and the unemployment rate was lowering following the abysmal year of The biggest shift towards recovery, however, came with the decision of Germany to invade France at the beginning of WWII. After France had been defeated, the U. France's defeat meant that Britain and other allies would look to the U. The need for these war materials created a huge spurt in production, thus leading to promising amount of employment in America.
Moreover, Britain chose to pay for their materials in gold. This stimulated the gold inflow and raised the monetary base, which in turn, stimulated the American economy to its highest point since the summer of when the depression began. By the end of , before American entry into the war, defense spending and military mobilization had started one of the greatest booms in American history thus ending the last traces of unemployment.
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