The Effect of Labor Force Participation on Female Suicide Rates: An Analysis of Individual Data from 16 States

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Stack
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Individual Data ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The Relationship

Previous American-based research on the effect of womens' labor force participation (WPLF) on suicide has been based on highly aggregated data which makes it difficult to determine the actual, individual level suicide rate of employed versus unemployed women. The present study employs recent data which allow for the calculation of such individual-level suicide rates. Controls are incorporated for age and marital status. The results indicate that the suicide rates for employed, younger women are consistently lower than the suicide rates of women who are unemployed. The same tends to be true of middle-aged women. For elderly women, however, the relationship reverses with WPLF being associated with relatively high suicide rates. The findings on young and middle-aged women support a role accumulation model of WPLF, while the findings on elderly women support the theory of status integration.

scholarly journals Gender Disparities, Labor Force Participation and Transfer Payment: What Do Macro Data Say?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-387
Author(s):  
Hale Akbulut
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Transfer Payment ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Transfer Payments ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Employ Labor Force ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between government transfer payments and labor force participation rates for a sample of 34 countries over the period of 1995- 2012. We benefit from two step system Generalized Method of Moments as a methodology and thereby eliminate the biases that may arise from endogenous variables. Our econometric results also confirm the employment of the dynamic methodology. First, we estimate the coefficients for overall population and then we re-estimate the coefficients for different genders. As a result of our estimations we observe that the significances and the values of coefficients increase when we employ labor force participation rates of females as dependent variable. Therefore, our findings suggest that transfer payments are more effective in working decisions of females.

scholarly journals The relationship between falls risk awareness and outdoor activities in middle-aged and elderly women

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Kazumi Fujiwara ◽  
Akihiko Iwahara ◽  
Emi Ito ◽  
Naoko Nagahara ◽  
Taketoshi Hatta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Falls Risk ◽  
The Relationship

Public pensions, economic development, and the labor force participation of older adults in Latin America in 1990–2010

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Lanza Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Latin American Countries

This paper investigates the coverage of public pension programs in Latin America and discusses the relation between economic development, the existence of public pension programs, and elderly labor force participation. The paper presents stylized facts about the labor force by age and the connection between economic development and labor supply using aggregated data from 23 Latin American countries. The second part of the paper uses regression models to investigate the effects of economic development and social security system on the labor force participation of the older adults in 23 Latin American countries over the period 1990–2010. The results show that in lower income Latin American countries, most men remained in the labor force until age 65 or beyond and that with economic development and related changes, the labor force participation of older men, even those aged 55–59, starts to decline. Overall, the paper provides some insight on the evolution of labor supply patterns in less developed economies with rising income, changes in population age structure, shifts in occupational composition, and development in public pension programs.

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