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How does long term unemployment affect how long the life expectancy of me in that country? I will be making scatter plot graph to help support on my question. Long term  unemployment is the explanatory variable. This question is worth researching because it tell the percentage of men who live longer or shorter due to unemployment. Finding out whether or not long term unemployment of a man can affect their health and sometime cause them to live a shorter life.

Starting off my research I want to give the overall long term unemployment rate and the life expectancy rate of both women and men together and separately. The countries that I picked for my research were the United States, France and Japan. Not really having a particular reason for why I choose these countries to find data on but it will be interesting seeing other countries economy problems. Wanting to compare data from a overall view on long term unemployment to see if, unemployment affect the life expectancy both men and women together or just men. Below is three graphs that will show long term unemployment vs. life expectancy for men and women and both men and women together.             

When looking at these graphs, I notice that with women unemployment for them is low in the United States and Japan and for those who are unemployed still life longer than the average long term unemployed for a male.

When thinking about a topic to research, I thought about something that I think that mainly affected the United States. This topic was Male Life expectancy based on Male long term unemployment rate. So what is the average age a man lives too based on their long term unemployment. What I found when researching is that men with long term unemployment tend to live to about 70 to 75 years of age.  When the long term unemployment rate of goes up (which is the y axis), the life expectancy of a male (which is the x axis) will be shorter. These fact are based off the three countries I picked United States, Japan, and France. According to Business Insider.com, “it's a fact that unemployment can lead to a loss of a sense of purpose and disconnection from the world — and other research shows that social isolation, and loss of purpose, has real health implications.”

Graph of Male Long Term Unemployment and the Male Life Expectancy from not having a job for a long time.

The x axis is represented by male life expectancy and y axis represented with long term male unemployment.The dots on the graph stands for three different countries United States (Green), Japan (Red), France (Yellow). The most important observation on my graph is that most long term unemployed men in these countries live a life to about 70 to 75 years of age. Something else that I noticed is that countries like the United States and France every time the long term unemployment goes up, the life expectancy of a man life is lowered from the average 70- 78 just to 70 years of age. Another observation that I noticed is that the bigger the dot the larger the population of men on long term unemployment and the country life expectancy of a male. The smaller size dot are has less of the male population that are being affected by long term male unemployment and life expectancy.

Thing that I noticed was that the dot are are going more in a positive correlation which in life expectancy is a good thing but not as good for the unemployment.  Also that in the years of 1983 in the United States, France 1998 and, Japan 2003 in these years male unemployment has risen up which cause the life expectancy of a male to be lower than average. This observation leaves me as questions like, “What was the cause for the unemployment to rise in United States in the year 1980?” According to InvestmentWatch.com, it shows and give the accuracy of male unemployment rate and the reasons for the drop in unemployment in the 1980’s. According to this website

The early 1980s recession was a severe recession in the United States which began in July 1981 and ended in November 1982
Unemployment had risen from 5.1% in January 1974 to a high of 9.0% in May 1975.  Although it had gradually declined to 5.6% by May 1979, unemployment began rising again thereafter. It jumped sharply to 6.9% in April 1980 and to 7.5% in May 1980. Twelve million people were unemployed, , an increase of 4.2 million people since July 1981.  Unemployment rates for every major group reached post-war highs, with men age 20 and over particularly hard hit.

“What was the cause for the unemployment to rise in France in the year 1998?” is another questions that I asked based on the data on the graph. According to tradingeconomics.com, it confirms that the unemployment was drastically high in france 1997 and 1998. Following a chart that show the high rate and unemployment.

It confirms that the unemployment was drastically high in france 1997 and 1998. Unemployment rate in France averaged 9.26 percent from 1996 until 2016
reaching an all time high of 10.70 percent in the first quarter of 1997 and a record low of 7.20 percent in the first quarter of 2008.”

In Japan we would also like to know “What was the causes for the unemployment to rise in Japan in the year 2003?”. Based on keidanren.or.jp, it gives information on what going on in Japan in 2003.

According to Tokyo Big Sight,

For many years after the end of the war, Japan's industrial structure was geared toward the task of catching up with the advanced countries of the West. According to nber.org

“In the second half of the 1990s, the job insecurities of middle-aged and older workers have received much attention. The Japanese government, media, labor unions, and even employers often admit that corporate restructuring measures have resulted in massive job loss among older, especially white-collar, workers.” Also that “middle aged
and older workers, who mainly lost their jobs through bankruptcy,
dismissal, or mandatory retirement.”

Another statistical evidence graphs that I will you reference in this paragraph along with some in text citation from whitehouse.gov.

“As Figure 1 shows, participation among prime-age men peaked in 1954, declined only slightly until the mid-1960s, but then began to decline in earnest in the decade between 1965 and 1975, when the share in the labor force fell from 96.7 percent to 94.2 percent. Since then, participation has fallen persistently, with sharper declines in recessionary periods, such as the early 1990s, that were not fully reversed in the subsequent expansion periods.”

When doing some research I discovered whitehouse.gov, which talked about the United States “during the Great Recession, the rate of labor force participation among prime-age men fell steeply, falling from 91.5 percent in January 2007 to 87.9 percent at its trough in October 2013”
“Not only has labor force participation among prime-age men declined over the past six decades, since 1990, the United States has had the second-largest decrease in prime-age male participation among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Of the OECD, the United States now ranks 3rd lowest out of 34, as shown in Figure 3—above only Italy and Israel—in terms of prime-age male labor force participation, compared to 10th lowest out of 24 in 1990.”

This supports my thesis statement because it prove that men that have not been employed in a long time, or that been look for a job for a long time, can have an affect on a man or persons health. Unemployment can sometimes leave to serious health conditions or even death.

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