Research finds that mass unemployment after the fall of the Soviet Union may have had a far longer-term impact on the health and happiness of those living in Eastern Europe than was previously thought.
Academics, including Dr Olena Nizalova, joint Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics in the Centre for Health Services Studies and the Personal Social Services Research Unit, set out to examine why many Eastern European nations’ populations reported lower happiness levels than Western nations, despite several years of economic growth and quality of life improvements prior to the Great Recession that started in 2008.
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