Occupational differences in working life expectancy and working years lost in Nordic countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Risk of exit from work is both occupation- and country-specific. This study investigated occupational differences in working life expectancy (WLE) and reasons for working years lost (WYL) among employed workers in three Nordic countries.

Methods

We utilized registry-based cohorts of the employed population in Denmark (N=2 383 657), Finland (N=1 266 705) and Norway (N=1 761 166) to estimate WLE for ages 30-65 using the Sullivan method with 2015 data. We further estimated WYL due to sickness absence, unemployment, disability retirement, old-age retirement and other reasons. The analyses were stratified by gender and major occupational group (1st digit in the ISCO-88 code).

Results

Occupational differences in WLE and WYL were observed in all countries. The over

SUBMITTER: Undem K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12414609 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature