How is suicide different in Japan?
How is suicide different in Japan?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.japwor.2008.06.001
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Sawada, Yasuyuki
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作者：
Chen, Joe;Choi, Yun Jeong;Sawada, Yasuyuki
本研究调查了经合组织国家的自杀率，特别是为了了解日本的自杀与其他经合组织国家的自杀有何不同。固定效应面板回归与国家特定的时间趋势出现了几个结果。首先，社会经济变量的影响在不同性别年龄组中各不相同。第二，一般来说，更好的经济条件，如高收入水平和更高的经济增长率被发现可以降低自杀率，而收入不平等会增加自杀率。第三，自杀率对以真实的人均GDP、真实的人均GDP增长率和基尼系数为代表的经济因素的敏感性高于对以离婚率、出生率为代表的社会因素的敏感性。女性劳动力参与率和酒精消费。第四，女性和老年人自杀更难解释。最后，日本的自杀问题与其他OECD国家的自杀问题有很大的不同，这与一般的看法是一致的。社会经济变量对自杀的影响在日本比其他OECD国家更大。(C)2008 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
This study investigates suicide rates among OECD countries, with particular effort made to gain insight into how suicide in Japan is different from suicides in other OECD countries. Several findings emerged from fixed-effect panel regressions with country-specific time-trends. First, the impacts of socioeconomic variables vary across different gender-age groups. Second, in general, better economic conditions such as high levels of income and higher economic growth were found to reduce the suicide rate, while income inequality increases the suicide rate. Third, the suicide rate is more sensitive to economic factors captured by real GDP per capita, growth rate of real GDP per capita, and the Gini index than to social factors represented by divorce rate, birth rate. female labor force participation rate, and alcohol consumption. Fourth, female and elderly suicides are more difficult to be accounted for. Finally, in accordance with general beliefs, Japan's suicide problem is very different from those of other OECD countries. The impact of the socioeconomic variables on suicide is greater in Japan than in other OECD countries. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.