@article{ref1,
title="Unemployment and suicide mortality: evidence from regional panel data in Europe",
journal="Health economics",
year="2014",
author="Breuer, Christian",
volume="24",
number="8",
pages="936-950",
abstract="This paper addresses the influence of economic activity on suicide mortality in Europe. To this end, it employs a new panel data set of 275 regions in 29 countries over the period 1999-2010. The results suggest that unemployment does have a significantly positive influence on suicides. In line with economic theory, this influence varies among gender and age groups. Men of working age are particularly sensitive, while old-age suicide mortality (older than 65 years old) hardly responds to unemployment. Moreover, real economic growth negatively affects the suicide rates of working-age men. The results withstand several robustness checks, such as sample variations, and after controlling for serial and spatial autocorrelation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1057-9230",
doi="10.1002/hec.3073",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.3073"
}