Although the unfavorable effects of unemployment on health are known, their dimensions cannot be fully revealed by researchers. The main problem may be due to the healthy labor supply and the social factors being effective in the interaction between unemployment and health. Social class, poverty, age, income level and housing differences can be listed as social factors. While social factors indirectly affect the relationship between unemployment and health, unemployment and health affect each other directly. While some health problems (depression, anxiety, suicide, deaths due to lung cancer, malnutrition, lack of access to health services) are inevitable for those who lose their jobs, unhealthy workforce is likely to have negative effects on economic growth. In this study, unemployment and health data were used in the period of 1988-2018 for Turkey and time series analysis was done. Health is proxied by life expectancy, financial development is proxied by the share of domestic loans in GDP, inflation is proxied by CPI, economic growth is proxied by GDP and unemployment is proxied by the share of total labor force. According to the results obtained from the study, one-way causality relationship was determined from unemployment, financial development and inflation to life expectancy in the long term. In addition, mutual causality was observed between economic growth and health in the long term. In the short term, there are one-way causations from economic growth to health and from health to financial development. These results prove that long-term unemployment is an important cause of health. Therefore, policy makers are advised to support unemployed people in terms of economic, social and health, in addition to reducing unemployment.
Doğuşta yaşam beklentisi işsizlik sağlık ARDL sınır testi nedensellik
Doğuşta Yaşam Beklentisi işsizlik sağlık ARDL Sınır Testi nedensellik
Birincil Dil | Türkçe |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 28 Aralık 2020 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 9 Haziran 2020 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2020 |