A Study of Suicide and Socioeconomic Factors

Autor/inn/en	Ying, Yung-hsiang; Chang, Koyin
Titel	A Study of Suicide and Socioeconomic Factors
Quelle	In: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39 (2009) 2, S.214-226 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0363-0234
DOI	10.1521/suli.2009.39.2.214
Schlagwörter	Labor Force Nonparticipants; Unemployment; Human Capital; Low Income Groups; Males; Females; Suicide; Economic Factors; Socioeconomic Influences; At Risk Persons; Social Problems; Trend Analysis; Foreign Countries; Age Differences; Older Adults; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitslosigkeit; Humankapital; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Weibliches Geschlecht; Selbstmord; Ökonomischer Faktor; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Risikogruppe; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Trendanalyse; Ausland; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Älterer Erwachsener; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	The topic of suicide has long been an important socioeconomic issue studied in many countries. Suicides inject an atmosphere of unrest into society, and media attention furthers that social uneasiness. From the viewpoint of economics and management, suicide is a waste of human resource: it decreases the labor force in society and deteriorates human capital. This paper provides a series of analyses of suicide rate based on theoretical reasoning and empirical approaches. Aggregate data from G7 countries are obtained and stacked into panel data for analysis. Data are collected for different age groups. Even though suicide issues have been extensively discussed in the past, newly developed econometric tools are applied to her. Beyond previously recognized relationships between economic factors and suicide rates findings include that unemployment strikes men more than women in terms of psychological pressure: for middle age or older women, unemployment may even be positive for the entire family; and female labor force participation exerts pressure on male counterparts and increases its suicide rate. As a result, a low income family with an unemployed man and an employed woman is at high risk for adult male suicide. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10