Acta Psychopathologica Open Access

I am a social scientist with interests in the broad areas of labour economics. My research agenda has a strong interdisciplinary emphasis. I find various combinations of diverse disciplines for a given research problem that might include economics, psychology, and health. My interdisciplinary research provides a steady stream of innovative projects and creative investigations that aim to evaluate causal patterns, inform social planners, and establish policy implications. I use econometric modelling to accomplish my research objectives. Through my published papers, and within the scope of Acta Psychopathologica, I have examined the following relations:

a. Health/mental health, productivity, employment and wages;

b. Health/mental health, personality and wages;

c. Economic crises and health/mental health;

d. Job satisfaction and demographic characteristics;

e. School-age bullying, human capital, mental health, and employment;

f. Ethnic identity, acculturation strategies, and labour market outcomes;

g. Labour market discrimination against minorities.

My research activity has contributed in several important domains in evaluating the following:

h. Empirical techniques to separate the unobserved productivity effect of health/mental health on wages;

i. The negative effect of unemployment and income losses on health/mental health;

j. The positive associations among health/mental health, and wages;

k. The positive associations between individuals’ brain types and wage rewards;

l. Health-impaired employees’ job satisfaction adjustments;

m. Sets of unbiased health/mental health discrimination indicators on employment;

n. Negative transmission mechanisms between bullying, human capital, mental health, and labour market outcomes;

o. The positive effects of assimilation and integration on immigrants’ employment and wages;

p. The positive effects of sexual orientation disclosure on job satisfaction.

We should welcome submissions that will improve understanding of psychological aspects of economic/employment phenomena and processes such as:

q. The association between personality characteristics, mental health and labour market prospects;

r. The association between school age bullying/workplace bullying/domestic violence on mental health and labour market prospects;

s. Health-impaired employees’ life and job satisfaction functioning;

t. The association between life and job satisfaction and its effect on labour market prospects;

u. Sexual orientation, personality characteristics, mental health and labour market prospects;

v. Gender identity, mental health and labour market prospects;

w. Economic crisis and mental health;

x. Economic crisis and tobacco/alcohol consumption;

y. The effect of societal and employment discrimination on minority employees’ labour market outcomes;

z. Immigrants’ acculturation strategies and their effects on mental health and labour market prospects.

We should seek manuscripts to be a channel for the increased interest in using psychology for the study of economic and employment behaviour, and so to contribute to better solutions of societal and labour problems.