The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates

The number of suicides has increased in the last decades in several developed countries. For instance, Spain has experienced a gradual but steady increase in suicides since the 80’s and it is currently the leading external cause of death in the country. At the same time, the dualisation of the labor...

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Autores: Grèbol Jiménez, Ricard, Vall-Castelló, Judit
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/57304
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252077
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Schools
Death rates
Labor markets
Graduates
Educational attainment
Employment
Suicide
Jobs
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spelling The impact of temporary contracts on suicide ratesGrèbol Jiménez, RicardVall-Castelló, JuditSchoolsDeath ratesLabor marketsGraduatesEducational attainmentEmploymentSuicideJobsThe number of suicides has increased in the last decades in several developed countries. For instance, Spain has experienced a gradual but steady increase in suicides since the 80’s and it is currently the leading external cause of death in the country. At the same time, the dualisation of the labor market, with a strong and persistent incidence of temporary contracts, has increased the instability of employment conditions. Both developments have a stronger incidence for individuals with lower levels of education. Therefore, in this paper we use rich administrative data in order to estimate the impact of the wide spread use of temporary contracts on suicides. In order to do that we exploit a reform that liberalised the use of fix-term contracts in Spain in 1984. Our results show strong long-term effects of the reform, which increased the suicide mortality rate of affected cohorts (those entering the labor market just after the liberalisation) by at least 25.3%. We believe that this result has important policy implications and should be taken into account in the design of the national suicide prevention plans.Public Library of Science (PLoS)202320232021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/57304http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252077reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésPLoS ONE. 2021;16(5):e0252077.https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176780&menu=resultados&idp=1254735573175#!tabs-1254736195294© 2021 Grèbol Jiménez, Vall Castelló. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/573042026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
spellingShingle The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
Grèbol Jiménez, Ricard
Schools
Death rates
Labor markets
Graduates
Educational attainment
Employment
Suicide
Jobs
title_short The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
title_full The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
title_fullStr The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
title_full_unstemmed The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
title_sort The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Grèbol Jiménez, Ricard
Vall-Castelló, Judit
author Grèbol Jiménez, Ricard
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Vall-Castelló, Judit
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Schools
Death rates
Labor markets
Graduates
Educational attainment
Employment
Suicide
Jobs
topic Schools
Death rates
Labor markets
Graduates
Educational attainment
Employment
Suicide
Jobs
description The number of suicides has increased in the last decades in several developed countries. For instance, Spain has experienced a gradual but steady increase in suicides since the 80’s and it is currently the leading external cause of death in the country. At the same time, the dualisation of the labor market, with a strong and persistent incidence of temporary contracts, has increased the instability of employment conditions. Both developments have a stronger incidence for individuals with lower levels of education. Therefore, in this paper we use rich administrative data in order to estimate the impact of the wide spread use of temporary contracts on suicides. In order to do that we exploit a reform that liberalised the use of fix-term contracts in Spain in 1984. Our results show strong long-term effects of the reform, which increased the suicide mortality rate of affected cohorts (those entering the labor market just after the liberalisation) by at least 25.3%. We believe that this result has important policy implications and should be taken into account in the design of the national suicide prevention plans.
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