Despite an increase in living standards and material comforts in industrialised societies, today’s ‘emerging adults’ (aged from late teens to mid-to-late 20s) face greater challenges than ever before. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between labour market status and mental health for the ‘millennial generation’ in England, and whether it varies by gender and ethnicity. This study will be the first to draw on the results from the 2015 sweep of Next Steps data when the sample members are aged 25 and, together with the previous seven sweeps, bring the debate up to date by providing first estimates of the life condition of contemporary emerging adults. We find black and minority ethnic groups have lower odds of reporting mental ill-health at age 25 than the white group. With respect to labour market status, we find that net of socio-economic characteristics, educational attainment, behavioural variables and income at age 25, those who are unemployed are more than twice as likely to report symptoms of poor mental health as those who are employed. Shift workers and those on zero-hours contracts are also at a greater risk of mental ill-health by 47% and 44% respectively than those who are not shift workers or zero-hours workers. We find no significant difference for those who have a second job or are on a permanent contract for mental health at age 25 compared to those who do not have a second job or are on a temporary contract.

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四分之一寿命危机？英格兰25岁人口的不稳定的劳动力市场状况和心理健康

尽管在工业化社会中生活水平和物质舒适度有所提高，但如今的“新兴成年人”（从十几岁的青少年到20多岁的中后期）面临着前所未有的挑战。本文旨在探讨英国“千禧一代”的劳动力市场状况与心理健康之间的关系，以及性别与种族之间是否存在差异。这项研究将是第一个借鉴样本成员年龄为25岁时2015年“下一步”数据扫描的结果的方法，并与之前的7次扫描结果一起，通过提供有关该人群的生活状况的初步估计来更新辩论当代新兴成年人。我们发现黑人和少数民族在25岁时报告精神疾病的几率比白人低。关于劳动力市场状况，我们发现，扣除25岁时的社会经济特征，教育程度，行为变量和收入，失业的人报告精神健康不良症状的可能性是就业者的两倍以上。与非轮班工人或非零时工的人相比，轮班工和具有零工时合同的人患精神疾病的风险也分别高47％和44％。与没有第二份工作或有临时合同的人相比，我们发现与第二份工作或具有25岁的精神健康永久合同的人没有显着差异。与非轮班工人或非零时工的人相比，轮班工和具有零工时合同的人患精神疾病的风险也分别高47％和44％。与没有第二份工作或有临时合同的人相比，我们发现与第二份工作或具有25岁的精神健康永久合同的人没有显着差异。与非轮班工人或非零时工的人相比，轮班工和具有零工时合同的人患精神疾病的风险也分别高47％和44％。与没有第二份工作或有临时合同的人相比，我们发现与第二份工作或具有25岁的精神健康永久合同的人没有显着差异。