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Clinical Neurology
Yu Vera Men, Cheuk Yui Yeung, Paul Siu Fai Yip
Summary: The study found that an increase in the unemployment rate was associated with a higher suicide rate among employed individuals but a lower suicide rate among the unemployed. Different groups have different needs in terms of suicide prevention, and targeted measures should be provided accordingly.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Elwin Tobing
Summary: This article investigates the effect of unemployment on obesity during the Great Recession. Using cross county US data, the study finds a pro-cyclical relationship between unemployment and obesity. The research further explores the impact of public recreational and fitness facility scarcity on this relationship, and suggests that limited access to these facilities may not contribute to weight gain among adult Americans during the COVID pandemic.
APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Margareta Dackehag, Lina Maria Ellegard, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Therese Nilsson
Summary: This study examines the relationship between local macroeconomic conditions and individual use of psychotropic medication. The findings show that when the local labor market conditions deteriorate, there is a decrease in the use of psychotropic medication among young men and older women, particularly in the use of antidepressants. Additionally, these age-gender groups also face a higher risk of mortality during economic downturns.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Miharu Nakanishi, Syudo Yamasaki, Kaori Endo, Shuntaro Ando, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study estimated the excess suicidal mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and found a significant increase in suicide during the pandemic. This suggests that COVID-19 may have a significant impact on mental health, particularly due to restricted social gatherings and prolonged uncertainties.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Gerhard Krug, Sebastian Prechsl
Summary: This study uses German panel data to examine the role of social network size and composition in explaining the negative effect of unemployment on health. The findings suggest that structural features of the social network do not mediate the health-damaging effect of unemployment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jonathan Briody
Summary: This study found that parental unemployment significantly affects child weight, and the probability of children consuming healthy food and engaging in physical activity is also influenced by parental unemployment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Chee-Hong Law, Siong Hook Law
Summary: This article examines the linear and non-linear impacts of innovation on unemployment and finds an inverted-U relationship between innovation and unemployment rate. Only innovation at the maximum and mean level contributes to lower unemployment, and the negative impact is larger at the maximum level. The robustness estimations also support this non-linear relationship. Therefore, policymakers should encourage innovation to create more job opportunities and consider interventions in job protection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCE & ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Hao Chen, Samuel Atingabili, Isaac Adjei Mensah, Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu, Evelyn Agba Tackie, Francisca Arboh, Bertha Ada Danso
Summary: This study examines the relationship between obesity and economic growth in African countries using urbanization, trade openness, and unemployment as intermittent variables within the Obesity Kuznets Curve (OKC) framework. The results show that economic growth has a positive impact on obesity in all study panels, but unemployment has a positive impact on obesity for low-income economies, while a significant negative relationship is observed for lower-middle income, upper-middle income, and aggregated panel. Furthermore, urbanization enhances obesity in the low-income panel and the aggregated panel, whereas it has an adverse effect in the lower-middle income and upper-middle income economies in Africa. Moreover, trade openness has a significant negative effect on obesity for all panels of African nations except for low-income economies.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Motohiro Okada
Summary: Similar to other countries, the Japanese government took quick preventive measures against the increasing suicide rates during the pandemic, but was unable to suppress the rise. Suicide mortality rates among individuals under 20 and females aged 20-39 significantly increased during the pandemic, despite showing a decreasing trend before its onset. Additionally, higher unemployment rates were associated with increased suicide mortality for both sexes before the pandemic, but this relationship was not observed during the pandemic for females.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Mark L. Bryan, Nigel Rice, Jennifer Roberts, Cristina Sechel
Summary: The effect of transitioning into poor mental health on employment probability is estimated to be a 1.6% point reduction, which accounts for approximately 10% of the raw employment gap. Selection into mental health is primarily based on time-invariant characteristics, allowing for unbiased estimates in this context.
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Desi Yuniarti, Dedi Rosadi, Abdurakhman
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the Indonesian economy, leading to business closures and a rise in unemployment. This study aims to identify the factors influencing the Open Unemployment Rate (OUR) in East Kalimantan Province and provide recommendations. The results highlight the importance of the Human Development Index (HDI) and Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) as factors affecting unemployment in the province.
ENGINEERING LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ferdi Botha, Viet H. Nguyen
Summary: This study investigates gender differences in the impact of unemployment and sentiment on suicide rates. The results show a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and suicide rate, as well as a negative relationship between consumer sentiment and suicide rate. However, there is considerable evidence of nonlinearity in these effects, with significant gender differences. The findings suggest that unemployment has a stronger effect on male suicide rates, while sentiment has a stronger effect on female suicide rates.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ryusuke Matsumoto, Eishi Motomura, Motohiro Okada
Summary: In Japan, suicides had been decreasing before the COVID-19 pandemic, but increased after the outbreak. Analysis of data from 2009 to 2022 showed that fluctuations in suicide rates had three patterns, including a positive discontinuity synchronized with the pandemic, attenuations of decreasing trends before the pandemic, and turning points from decreasing to increasing or unchanged after the pandemic. Unemployment rate was found to have a relationship with suicide rates, and the duration and reasons for unemployment also affected the changes in suicide rates.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sotiris Vandoros, Ichiro Kawachi
Summary: The study found a positive association between economic uncertainty and suicide rates, with a 1% increase in uncertainty associated with an additional 11-24.4 monthly suicides in the US. Suicides during periods of economic uncertainty may have a more impulsive nature, emphasizing the importance of providing suicide prevention interventions during such times.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Mihaela Simionescu, Javier Cifuentes-Faura
Summary: This study analyzes and predicts youth unemployment in Spain using Google Trends indices. The results confirm that forecasts based on Google Trends data are more accurate.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
