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Fritzell, Johan; Hertzman, Jennie Bacchus; Bäckman, Olof; Borg, Ida; Ferrarini, Tommy; Nelson, Kenneth

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“…6 Unemployment, 27 unaffordable housing prices and indebtedness 28 and evictions 29 have been associated with elevated risk of suicide death. The continued welfare downsizing in the 2000s 9 has resulted in widened income inequality, 7 8 which may have exacerbated the sense of relative deprivation, that is, having less compared with those with higher income, among poorer groups and contributed to worsening psychosocial health. 30 Also, during the economic recession, psychosocial work environments have deteriorated in various social groups, possibly due to increased demands on productivity with little investment.…”

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“…When the economic recession, the worst since the 1920s, hit the country between 1990 and 1994, the rate of unemployment soared from 2% in 1990 to 9% in 1994 and stayed between 6% and 8% in 2000s. 6 Facing the need to control spending, the government implemented tax reforms and cutbacks in social services and unemployment and sickness compensation, 7 resulting in sharp declines in the redistributive effects of taxes and social benefits, from 40% in 1980s/90s to 30% in 2008. 8 The downsizing of social security provision continued well into the 2000s, 9 resulting in Sweden experiencing a widening income gap between employed and non-employed and the largest growth in income inequality among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries between 1985 and the late 2000s.…”

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Increasing income-based inequality in suicide mortality among working-age women and men, Sweden, 1990–2007: is there a point of trend change?

Hiyoshi

Kondo

Rostila

2018

J Epidemiol Community Health

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BackgroundIncome inequalities have risen from the 1990s to 2000s, following the economic recession in 1994, but little research has investigated socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality for working-age men and women (aged between 30 and 64 years) over the time using longitudinal data in Sweden.MethodsUsing Swedish national register data between 1990 and 2007 as a series of repeated cohort studies with a 3-year follow-up (sample sizes were approximately 3.7 to 4.0 million in each year), relative and slope indices of inequality (RII and SII respectively) based on quintiles of individual disposable income were calculated and tested for temporal trends.ResultsSII for the risk of suicide mortality ranged from 27.6 (95% CI 19.5 to 35.8) to 44.5 (36.3 to 52.6) in men and 5.2 (0.2 to 10.4) to 16.6 (10.7 to 22.4) in women (per 100 000 population). In men, temporal trends in suicide inequalities were stable in SII but increasing in RII by 3% each year (p=0.002). In women, inequalities tended to increase in both RII and SII, especially after the late-1990s, with 10% increment in RII per year (p<0.001).ConclusionsDespite universal social security and generous welfare provision, income inequalities in suicide were considerable and have widened, especially in women. The steeper rise in women may be partially related to higher job insecurity and poorer working conditions in the female dominated public sector after the recession. To reduce health consequences following an economic crisis and widened income inequalities, additional measures may be necessary in proportion to the levels of financial vulnerability.

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Increasing income-based inequality in suicide mortality among working-age women and men, Sweden, 1990–2007: is there a point of trend change?

Hiyoshi

Kondo

Rostila

2018

J Epidemiol Community Health

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“…In 1983, when this study began, Sweden had an equal income distribution: the Gini coefficient (adjusted disposable income) was 0.18, the unemployment rate was approximately 2 percent, the real GDP growth rate was 1.9 percent, and women were continuing their march into the labor market (Fritzell et al 2010). Sweden was, in many ways, the classical country with a full employment policy.…”

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“…The crises in the 1990s also led to changes for the age group of 55 and older. A postponement of labor force exit was observed, partially explained by the more restricted policy for early retirement (Fritzell et al 2010). Between 1995 and 2004, the GDP growth rate was 2.6 percent per annum and Sweden had higher GDP growth rates than all the other EU countries and the United States (Regeringskansliet 2006).…”

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Changes in Disposable Personal Income and the Gender Personal Income Gap in Sweden, 1983–2010: A Study of Three Different Income Positions

Jansson

2020

Soc. sci. hist.

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In recent decades, the Swedish economy has been characterized by rather fast economic growth. At the same time, income inequality has increased substantially. In the present study, I investigated who has gained and who has been left behind during this period—how disposable personal income has changed for men and women, as well as for those in different positions in the income distribution. Register data for the total population (aged 20 to 80 years old) from 1983 to 2010 were used and three different positions in the income distribution were investigated: percentile 10, the median, and percentile 99. Five years were selected: 1983, 1991, 2000, 2006, and 2010. Each selected year represents a snapshot and describes the general trend. Results show that women in the 10th percentile have increased their income quite well, a result of increased female labor force participation during the period. This has led to a decrease of the income gap between genders within this group. But results also show a masculinization of low income and poverty, as the male incomes in this group have not increased to the same extent as for males in the other income groups. At the median, both men and women experienced a steady increase of incomes, but the gender gap for ages younger than 50 widened between 2000 and 2010. At the very top, percentile 99, the increase in disposable personal income was enormous; however, the gender gap in income did not decrease.

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“…(2008), Jäntti (2013) andFritzell Bacchus Hertzman, Bäckman, Borg, Ferrarini andNelson (2014). On changes in the housing policy see for example Hedin, Clark, Lundholm and Malmberg (2012) and Andersson and Magnusson Turner (2014).…”

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Why Do Some Young Adults not Graduate From Upper-Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure

Gustafsson

Katz

Österberg

2016

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Increasing income-based inequality in suicide mortality among working-age women and men, Sweden, 1990–2007: is there a point of trend change?

Increasing income-based inequality in suicide mortality among working-age women and men, Sweden, 1990–2007: is there a point of trend change?

Changes in Disposable Personal Income and the Gender Personal Income Gap in Sweden, 1983–2010: A Study of Three Different Income Positions

Why Do Some Young Adults not Graduate From Upper-Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure

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