Socioeconomic Factors and Suicide Rates at Large-unit Aggregate Levels: A Comment
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A study of suicide and socioeconomic factors.
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 analy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Urban Studies
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0042-0980,1360-063X
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000191029