Impact of the active job openings-to-applicants ratio on the number of ambulance dispatches in Japan, 2003-2021: a longitudinal ecological study
Yohei Kamikawa · 2024
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Description
Yohei Kamikawa asks whether the job market moves the number of ambulance rides in Japan. He tracked monthly data from 2003 to 2021, a span covering more than 108 million dispatches. His main measure was the ratio of open jobs to applicants, a standard gauge of how tight the labor market is. He adjusted for the older population, the average temperature, and the total population.
Months with more open jobs per applicant saw slightly more ambulance calls, and the link held up in the statistics. A model that included the job ratio also tracked the real trend better than one built only on age, heat, and headcount. Kamikawa argues that emergency planning should watch the economy, not just demography and weather. Busy labor markets, it seems, send more people into ambulances.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yohei Kamikawa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |