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Different dataset - For starters: "all of china" includes a lot of unemployed people. "All of Foxconn" includes only employed people.
by skore 15y ago
Different dataset - For starters: "all of china" includes a lot of unemployed people. "All of Foxconn" includes only employed people.
- ceejayoz 15y agoUnemployment rate in Chinese urban areas: 14% http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/albert.park/papers/unemployment.pdf http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/albert.park/papers/une... Study indicating double suicide risk in unemployed: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=DA81C3E319F7073C8E386BEBCEB9A86B.journals?fromPage=online&aid=64005 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessio... Even if you posit that 100% of China is unemployed and thus causes double the normal suicide rate, you'd still expect ~60 suicides at Foxconn in an average year.