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The impact of temporary contracts on suicide Rates

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorGrèbol Jiménez, Ricard
dc.contributor.authorVall Castelló, Judit
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-01T08:51:49Z
dc.date.available2022-03-01T08:51:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-26
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationGrèbol Jiménez, R., & Vall Castelló, J. (2021). The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates. PLOS ONE, 16(5), e0252077.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252077
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage21
dc.identifier.publicationtitlePLoS Oneen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume16
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34266
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000028660
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dc.rights© 2021 Grèbol Jiménez, Vall Castelló.en
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.titleThe impact of temporary contracts on suicide Ratesen
dc.typeresearch article*
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