The association between early-onset schizophrenia with employment, income, education, and cohabitation status: nationwide study with 35 years of follow-up.
Christian HakulinenJohn J McGrathAllan TimmermanNiels SkipperPreben Bo MortensenCarsten Bøcker PedersenEsben AgerboPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2019)
Individuals with schizophrenia are at high risk of being outside the labour market and living alone throughout their entire life, resulting in an enormous societal loss in earnings. Individuals with less chronic course of schizophrenia had a gradual but substantial improvement throughout their work life.