Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers.

ABSTRACT: Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this study presents new evidence on the effects of job quality on the occurrence of severe acute conditions, the level of cardiovascular risk factors, musculoskeletal disorders, mental health, functional disabilities and self-assessed health among workers aged 50+. By combining intrinsic job quality with job insecurity and pay the study maps out multiple potential pathways through which work may affect health and well-being. Levering longitudinal data and external information on early retirement ages allows for accounting of unobserved heterogeneity, selection bias and reverse causality. The empirical findings suggest that inequities in health correlate with inequities in job quality, though a substantial fraction of th

SUBMITTER: Henseke G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773635 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature