The relationship between unemployment rate and national health in Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Lin, Hueilan, 林慧蘭
• Other Authors: Chen, Chunchih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67012623493677086526

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 經濟學系 === 99 === In this study, we examined the total mortality and eight of the ten sources of fatalities and unemployment rates in Taiwan from 1997 to 2008. We also focused on the correlation between total mortality and eight of the ten sources of fatalities in Taiwan and the annual unemployment rates during the study period. In this paper, we establish the panel data of county’s mortality and county’s unemployment rate for the period 1997-2008. We depart from previous studies by looking at the mortality of cohorts of different ages, and we use fixed effect model to control for heterogeneity. The results show that under the control of year effect and county characteristic variables, the unemployment rates is positive and statistically significantly correlated with diabetes mortality in 25-44 year olds, 45-64 year olds, and age 65 or older. Since young adults have the highest rates of labor force participation and are most affected by unemployment rate in fatalities are largest for them. We also find that the unemployment is negative and statistically significantly correlated with total mortality, accident mortality and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis mortality in 25-44 year olds.