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The wear and tear on health: What is the role of occupation?
- Source :
- Health Economics; Feb2018, Vol. 27 Issue 2, pe69-e86, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Health is well known to show a clear gradient by occupation. Although it may appear evident that occupation can affect health, there are multiple possible sources of selection that can generate a strong association, other than simply a causal effect of occupation on health. We link job characteristics to German panel data spanning 29 years to characterize occupations by their physical and psychosocial burden. Employing a dynamic model to control for factors that simultaneously affect health and selection into occupation, we find that selection into occupation accounts for at least 60% of the association. The effects of occupational characteristics such as physical strain and low job control are negative and increase with age: late-career exposure to 1 year of high physical strain and low job control is comparable to the average health decline from ageing 16 and 6 months, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10579230
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128732236
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3563