The Dynamic Effect of Unemployment Rate and Crime Rate on Suicide Rate under Economic Growth Rate

Chen, Ssu-Han; Yang, Tzu‐Yi; Yang, Yu‐Tai; Wang, Chiu‐Yen

doi:10.1155/2022/7473054

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“…The best action is for the government to set fair wages so that individuals will be more satisfied with their income. This study is in line with research [3], which states that the Open Unemployment Rate significantly affects crime rates.…”

Section: Economic Interpretationsupporting

confidence: 92%

Determinants Analysis of the Crime Rate with an Economic Approach in the Former Residence of Semarang Period 2018–2021

Masitoh,

Setyowati

2023

Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research

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The high crime rate in a community result from the low amount of private property. It compels any person, regardless of gender, age, or other factors, to commit a crime to maintain a decent standard of living. Moreover, they could all be considered criminals. This research study aims to understand what economic factors affect the crime rate in the former Semarang residency for 2018-2021. Finding the outcomes in this quantitative study involves using pooled data regression analysis. The result of this research is that in selecting the best model, the model chosen is the Random Effect Model (REM). These results suggest that poverty, the human development index, and population density positively and significantly impact crime rates in the former Semarang Residency. Education and the open unemployment rate have a negative and significant impact on crime rates among former Semarang residents. The coefficient of determination (R 2 ) is 0.945095, meaning that 94.50% of the variance of the crime rate variable is explained through the variables of education, poverty, the Human Development Index, population density, and the Open Unemployment Rate. Meanwhile, the rest, 5.5%, is influenced by independent variables outside the model.

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Section: Economic Interpretationsupporting

confidence: 92%

Determinants Analysis of the Crime Rate with an Economic Approach in the Former Residence of Semarang Period 2018–2021

Masitoh,

Setyowati

2023

Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research

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“…Owing to the high suicide rate before the Asian financial crisis, it can be inferred that Taiwan's suicide rate remained steady during the crisis period of 1997-1998 but continued its ascent after the crisis (Chen et al, 2010;Chen, 2017).…”

Section: Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the suicide rate was not considerably affected and even exhibited a declining trend. According to the National Development Council (NDC), the economic growth recovered the following year (2010), reaching a peak exceeding10% (Chen, 2017;Guo, 2009;NDC, 2013;Wu et al, 2012).…”

Section: Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic effect of economic growth on the persistence of suicide rates

Yang

Chen

et al. 2023

Geospat Health

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Positive and negative economic growth is closely related to the suicide rate. To answer the question whether economic development has a dynamic impact on this rate, we used a panel smooth transition autoregressive model to evaluate the threshold effect of economic growth rate on the persistence of suicide. The research period was from 1994 to 2020, and the results show that the suicide rate had a persistent effect, which varied over time depending on the transition variable within different threshold intervals. However, the persistent effect was manifested in different degrees with the change in the economic growth rate and as the lag period of the suicide rate increased, the effect of the influence gradually decreased. We investigated different lag periods and noted that the impact on the suicide rate was the strongest in the first year after an economic change and then reduced to be only marginal after three years. This means that the growth momentum of the suicide rate within the first two years after a change in the economic growth rate, should be included in policy considerations of how to prevent suicides.

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“…Unemployment rate and economic growth Full employment and economic growth are the focus of modern macroeconomic research, and many scholars have studied them from various perspectives, such as ecology, energy, culture, and security (11, [13][14][15][16][17][18]. As far as the relationship between unemployment and economic growth is concerned, the famous American economist Okun pointed out that there is a fixed quantitative relationship between economic growth and unemployment.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unemployment has a social cost. Unemployment increases crime rates, affects social order ( 16 , 45 ), and creates mental health problems and suicidal tendencies for the unemployed ( 18 , 46 ). Moreover, the impact of unemployment is wider than the period of unemployment.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Can the asymmetry of Okun's law be interpreted from a social perspective? Evidence from the World Bank

Kaifeng

Jingbin

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Okun's law is generally interpreted in economic terms. This paper is interpreted from a social perspective through regression and mediating effect models. Okun's law is demonstrated based on data from the World Development Indicators (WDI) dataset. There is indeed a relationship between unemployment and economic growth, with unemployment negatively affecting economic growth after controlling for the two-way causality problem. This result remains robust after replacing the core explanatory variables. This paper interprets the asymmetry of Okun's law from a social perspective, using alcohol consumption as a mediating variable to measure the harm caused by unemployment to the unemployed. Analysis of the data reveals that alcohol consumption mediates between unemployment and economic growth. Unemployment increases alcohol consumption, which causes incurable harm to the unemployed. It reduces the willingness and probability of the unemployed to re-employ and further reduces the potential for economic growth. This is why the economic expansion did not lead to employment growth, revealing the asymmetry of Okun's law. The gender-specific heterogeneity analysis found that the impact of unemployment on economic growth did not vary much by gender.

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The Dynamic Effect of Unemployment Rate and Crime Rate on Suicide Rate under Economic Growth Rate

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Determinants Analysis of the Crime Rate with an Economic Approach in the Former Residence of Semarang Period 2018–2021

Determinants Analysis of the Crime Rate with an Economic Approach in the Former Residence of Semarang Period 2018–2021

Dynamic effect of economic growth on the persistence of suicide rates

Can the asymmetry of Okun's law be interpreted from a social perspective? Evidence from the World Bank

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