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Employment, job skills and occupational mobility of cancer survivors
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- © 2018 The Authors Previous studies find significant negative effects of cancer on employment, with stronger effects for less-educated workers. We investigate whether the effect of cancer varies by skill requirement in the pre-cancer occupation, whether such heterogeneity can explain educational gradients, and whether cancer is associated with changes in job characteristics for cancer survivors who remain employed four years after the diagnosis. We combine Danish administrative registers with detailed skill requirement data and use individuals without cancer as a control group. Our main findings are the following: the negative effect of cancer on employment is stronger if the pre-cancer occupation requires high levels of manual skills or low levels of cognitive skills; the educational gradient diminishes substantially if we allow the effects of cancer to also depend on pre-cancer skill requirements; and cancer is not associated with occupational mobility, indicating potential for policies that reduce labour market frictions for cancer survivors.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Employment
Male
Control (management)
Danish
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Return to Work
Cancer Survivors
0502 economics and business
medicine
Humans
Disabled Persons
Cognitive skill
050207 economics
Occupational mobility
Health Policy
05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cancer
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Career Mobility
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Insurance, Disability
language
Health Policy & Services
Female
Psychology
Job skills
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dba0f3b098eadae87f05d4d5947e2422