The Impact of Unemployment on Well-Being: Evidence from the Regional Level Suicide Data in Finland

Huikari, Sanna; Korhonen, Marko

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1071-x

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“…A study by Huikari and Korhonen (2015) studied associations between regional unemployment rates and suicide in Finland from 1991-2011 (years pooled). Data on suicide, mortality, and unemployment was provided by Statistics Finland.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour in Europe: A systematic review

Cairns

Graham

Bambra

2017

Social Science & Medicine

109

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The relationship between adverse individual socio-economic circumstances and suicidal behaviour is well established. However, the impact of adverse collective circumstances - such as the socio-economic context where people live - is less well understood. This systematic review explores the extent to which area-level socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with inequalities in suicidal behaviour and self-harm in Europe. We performed a systematic review (in MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, EconLit and Social Sciences Citation Index) from 2005 to 2015. Observational studies were included if they were based in Europe and had a primary suicidal behaviour and self-harm outcome, compared at least two areas, included an area-level measure of socio-economic disadvantage and were published in the English language. The review followed The Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for quality appraisal. We identified 27 studies (30 papers) from 14 different European countries. There was a significant association (in 25/27 studies, all of which were rated as of medium or high quality) between socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour (and self-harm), particularly for men, and this was a consistent finding across a variety of European countries. Socio-economic disadvantage was found to have an independent effect in several studies whilst others found evidence of mediating contextual and compositional factors. There is strong evidence of an association between suicidal behaviours (and self-harm) and area-level socio-economic disadvantage in Europe, particularly for men. Suicide prevention strategies should take this into account.

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Section: Finlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, in Portugal (Santana et al, 2015), associations were attenuated after adjusting for rurality. Furthermore, a Finnish study (Huikari & Korhonen, 2015) found that regional unemployment levels influenced the relationship between area-level socio-economic disadvantage and suicidal behaviours.…”

Section: A C C E P T E D Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour in Europe: A systematic review

Cairns

Graham

Bambra

2017

Social Science & Medicine

109

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“…Layard points out the 'heavy economic costs' and importance of mental health, calculating that the overall output loss is close to 7.5% of GDP in Britain, and concluding that, "of all this cost, more than half falls on the taxpayer and the rest on the individuals concerned and on their employers." Huikari and Korhonen (2016) contend that suicide statistics have a number of advantages over other methods of assessing 'happiness,' and agree with Daly and colleagues (2013) that, "suicide can be considered as a direct measure of an individual's well-being. Further… suicide data measure more objectively well-being effects that, for example, survey data on self-reported well-being or self-reported health statistics."…”

Section: Employment Well-being and Suicidementioning

confidence: 56%

“…Wellbeing is strongly related to macroeconomic conditions, and in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) a number of papers have reported an increase in suicide rates in high-income countries. (Chen, Choi, Mori, Sawaka, & Sugano, 2012;Breuer & Rottman, 2014;Chang & Chen, 2015;Huikari & Korhonen, 2016;Blazquez-Fernandez, Cantarero-Prieto, & Pascual-Saez, 2017) Anne Case and Angus Deaton (2015) investigated whether or not a relationship exists between suicide rates and self-reported well-being, and whether or not either metric is a useful indicator of overall societal well-being. Case and Deaton had sought a benchmark for self-reported well-being to understand if the measure has face validity, and speculated that suicide might be a measure of people's unhappiness.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unemployment and Midlife Suicide Rates in Australia, 2001-2015: Implications During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rawlings¹,

O’Shaughnessy²,

Looi³

et al. 2020

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“…Huikari and Korhonen indicated that job loss in regions with low unemployment was more strongly associated with suicide than job loss in regions with high unemployment among in males in Finland. 36 This suggests that men who lose their jobs in regions where unemployment is uncommon may have a more marked change in social class than those who lose their jobs in regions where unemployment is more prevalent, and that this change in social class may in uence suicidal behaviour.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Correlates Of Overall Suicidesmentioning

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Socio-economic Characteristics Associated with Increased Suicide Risk Across 1887 Municipalities in Japan, 2009-2017.

Yoshioka

Sato

et al. 2021

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Previous studies have indicated that spatial variation in suicide mortality is associated with area-specific socio-economic characteristics, such as socio-economic deprivation and social fragmentation. However, most of these studies have been conducted in the West and findings from Asian countries are limited. This study aims to investigate associations between socio-economic characteristics and suicide mortality rates across 1887 municipalities in Japan between 2009 and 2017. Socio-economic characteristics were extracted from the 2010 census. We used single-person households and unmarried adults as indicators of social fragmentation, unemployment rate and educational attainment as indicators of socio-economic deprivation, and population density as an indicator of rurality. Bayesian hierarchical models were used to examine associations between socio-economic characteristics and suicide risk. Higher levels of both fragmentation and deprivation were significantly associated with higher rates of area-specific suicide risk. The strongest association was seen with educational attainment as an indicator of deprivation. Socio-economic status and suicide risk varied considerably by gender and age. Our results show that there are clear geographic and socio-economic inequalities associated with risk of suicide in Japan, which vary by gender and age. Suicide prevention in Japan should particularly focus on areas with high levels of deprivation.

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The Impact of Unemployment on Well-Being: Evidence from the Regional Level Suicide Data in Finland

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour in Europe: A systematic review

Area-level socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour in Europe: A systematic review

Unemployment and Midlife Suicide Rates in Australia, 2001-2015: Implications During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Socio-economic Characteristics Associated with Increased Suicide Risk Across 1887 Municipalities in Japan, 2009-2017.

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