In order to provide a framework for reviewing the voluminous literature on unemployment
and suicidal behaviour, the author distinguishes between two categories of deliberately self …

This paper assesses the relationship between suicide and unemployment in Italy during the
period 1977–1987, taking into account variations by gender and region. The first objective of …

Microdata are used in this paper to analyze the effects of unemployment on mental health.
The analysis is done in two steps. First, cross-section data of labor force participants are …

This article summarizes research conducted in the past 20 years concerning mental health
effects of involuntary job loss. The majority of studies and previous reviews focus on …

Forecasts suggest that unemployment will remain above 2 million in Britain for the best part
of the 1980s. The social consequences of protracted high levels of unemployment are …

The ecological association between unemployment and parasuicide rates among males in
Edinburgh over the period 1968–82 was positive and highly significant (r= 0· 77). Similarly …

M. Harvey Brenner's numerous time-series analyses of the relationship between population
mortality rates and aggregate unemployment rates have attracted considerable attention …

One of the more controversial topics in the literature examining the influence of
unemployment on health is the hypothesised relation between unemployment and mortality …

The object of the paper is to provide a satisfactory intellectual context to discuss the effects of
unemployment both on morbidity and on mortality. The paper consists of three main sections …

UNEMPLOYMENT has been steadily rising over the past few years and it has been
estimated that the father in perhaps one in six families was without a job at some stage …