Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hardly any evidence exists on the effects of mental illness on refugee labor outcomes. This paper offers the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the worl...

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Main Authors:	Dang, Hai-Anh H., Trinh, Trong-Anh, Verme, Paolo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WAGES SOCIAL SERVICE SUPPORT TO REFUGEES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE SOCIAL NETWORKS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEES KESSLER MENTAL HEALTH SCORE REFUGEE LABOR OUTCOMES POST-RESETTLEMENT MENTAL HEALTH REFUGEE HOST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE BUILDING A NEW LIFE IN AUSTRALIA LONGITUDINAL SURVEY MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL ILLNESS IN RESETTLEMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099751406132233907/IDU0d25fa10702ac2049bf0bf8d0d61ea329a7d0 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37544

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spelling	okr-10986-375442022-06-15T05:10:42Z Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey Dang, Hai-Anh H. Trinh, Trong-Anh Verme, Paolo CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WAGES SOCIAL SERVICE SUPPORT TO REFUGEES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE SOCIAL NETWORKS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEES KESSLER MENTAL HEALTH SCORE REFUGEE LABOR OUTCOMES POST-RESETTLEMENT MENTAL HEALTH REFUGEE HOST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE BUILDING A NEW LIFE IN AUSTRALIA LONGITUDINAL SURVEY MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL ILLNESS IN RESETTLEMENT Hardly any evidence exists on the effects of mental illness on refugee labor outcomes. This paper offers the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey, the paper exploits the variations in traumatic experiences of refugees interacted with post-resettlement time periods to causally identify the impacts of refugee mental health. The findings show that worse mental health, as measured by a one-standard-deviation increase in the Kessler mental health score, reduces the probability of employment by 14.1 percent and labor income by 26.8 percent. There is also evidence of adverse impacts of refugees’ mental illness on their children’s mental health and educational performance. These effects appear to be more pronounced for newly arriving refugees and those without social networks, but they may be ameliorated with government support. 2022-06-14T19:58:10Z 2022-06-14T19:58:10Z 2022-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099751406132233907/IDU0d25fa10702ac2049bf0bf8d0d61ea329a7d0 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37544 English Policy Research Working Papers;10083 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Australia
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topic	CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WAGES SOCIAL SERVICE SUPPORT TO REFUGEES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE SOCIAL NETWORKS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEES KESSLER MENTAL HEALTH SCORE REFUGEE LABOR OUTCOMES POST-RESETTLEMENT MENTAL HEALTH REFUGEE HOST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE BUILDING A NEW LIFE IN AUSTRALIA LONGITUDINAL SURVEY MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL ILLNESS IN RESETTLEMENT
spellingShingle	CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WAGES SOCIAL SERVICE SUPPORT TO REFUGEES EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE SOCIAL NETWORKS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEES KESSLER MENTAL HEALTH SCORE REFUGEE LABOR OUTCOMES POST-RESETTLEMENT MENTAL HEALTH REFUGEE HOST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE BUILDING A NEW LIFE IN AUSTRALIA LONGITUDINAL SURVEY MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL ILLNESS IN RESETTLEMENT Dang, Hai-Anh H. Trinh, Trong-Anh Verme, Paolo Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
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description	Hardly any evidence exists on the effects of mental illness on refugee labor outcomes. This paper offers the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey, the paper exploits the variations in traumatic experiences of refugees interacted with post-resettlement time periods to causally identify the impacts of refugee mental health. The findings show that worse mental health, as measured by a one-standard-deviation increase in the Kessler mental health score, reduces the probability of employment by 14.1 percent and labor income by 26.8 percent. There is also evidence of adverse impacts of refugees’ mental illness on their children’s mental health and educational performance. These effects appear to be more pronounced for newly arriving refugees and those without social networks, but they may be ameliorated with government support.
format	Working Paper
author	Dang, Hai-Anh H. Trinh, Trong-Anh Verme, Paolo
author_facet	Dang, Hai-Anh H. Trinh, Trong-Anh Verme, Paolo
author_sort	Dang, Hai-Anh H.
title	Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
title_short	Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
title_full	Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
title_fullStr	Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
title_full_unstemmed	Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
title_sort	do refugees with better mental health better integrate? : evidence from the building a new life in australia longitudinal survey
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099751406132233907/IDU0d25fa10702ac2049bf0bf8d0d61ea329a7d0 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37544
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Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? : Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

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