Researchers from South Korea and the USA have investigated whether or not there is a relation between alcohol consumption and unemployment. The team examined data covering the period 1994-2013 and found that alcohol habits ...
Aug 9, 2018
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The number of reported cases of child neglect in the United States of America increased as a result of the spike in unemployment following the financial crisis of 2007-08, according to new Oxford University research. The ...
Nov 3, 2017
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In an exhaustive study of the evolution in suicide rates in the municipality of Barakaldo during the 2003-2014 period, a UPV/EHU lecturer in psychiatry uncovered the social groups in which there was an increase in the number ...
Sep 13, 2016
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The expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates, conclude researchers in The BMJ this week.
Apr 8, 2015
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The psychological damage caused by unemployment is greater than previously thought, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Stirling.
Feb 16, 2015
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Every year, around 45,000 people take their own lives because they are out of work or someone close to them is affected by unemployment, as a study by the University of Zurich now reveals. It includes data of 63 countries ...
Feb 10, 2015
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How does an individual's happiness level reflect societal conditions? A new article out today in the first issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) finds that similar to how GDP measures the ...
Nov 4, 2014
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Being unemployed increases your risk of death, but recessions decrease it. Sound paradoxical? Researchers thought so too.
Jul 24, 2014
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A new study published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) today shows that while job loss is associated with depressive symptoms in both the USA and Europe, the effects of job loss due to plant closure ...
Jun 18, 2014
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Heatwaves and high temperatures can have a dramatic impact on people's physical health. We only have to look at the increases in emergency department admissions during recent heatwaves to know that.
Feb 18, 2014
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