Unemployment and suicide

Suicide and unemployment in young people

Declaration of interest None. Population suicide rates are widely regarded as a measure of a society's social and psychological health (Durkheim, 1897). Thus, any association between unemployment and suicide would appear to offer a forceful indication of the effects upon individuals of the prevailing social, and particularly economic, environment. However, a conflicting picture emerges from ana...

The Great Recession, unemployment and suicide

BACKGROUND How have suicide rates responded to the marked increase in unemployment spurred by the Great Recession? Our paper puts this issue into a wider perspective by assessing (1) whether the unemployment-suicide link is modified by the degree of unemployment protection, and (2) whether the effect on suicide of the present crisis differs from the effects of previous economic downturns. MET...

Suicide, deprivation, and unemployment: record linkage study.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between suicide and socioeconomic status, unemployment, and chronic illness. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING England and Wales. SUBJECTS Individuals from the Office for National Statistics longitudinal study for whom 1981 census data were available. The longitudinal study is a representative 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in w...

American Indian suicide and homicide rates and unemployment.

[Unemployment, suicide- and homicide-rates in the EU countries].

BACKGROUND While the link between the unemployment and the national suicide rates is confirmed by various studies, there are few investigations on the impact of unemployment on homicide rates. In particular, it is not known whether suicide and homicide are associated with the same socio-economic factors. METHODS Using linear regression method, the influence of unemployment rates, per capita i...