Lagging behind in health and work expectancies: Increasing disadvantage of individuals with lower educational level in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many governments increased the retirement age in response to population ageing. Against this backdrop, it remains unclear whether the development in healthy life years can keep pace with the increase in working life years and whether people with lower socio-economic status are left behind. We investigated time trends in healthy life years and healthy working life years and how trends differ between educational groups in Germany.

Methods

Temporal trends in partial life expectancy between age 30 and 69 were assessed using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP, N=40,150) of three educational groups. Based on this, education-specific (Un)Healthy Life Expectancy ((U)HLE) and (Un)Healthy Working Life Expectancy ((U)HWLE) were calculated using the Sullivan met

SUBMITTER: Tetzlaff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12622782 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature