Associations of employment sector and occupational exposures with full and part-time sickness absence: random and fixed effects analyses on panel data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to investigate the influence of unobserved individual characteristics in explaining the effects of work-related factors on full (fSA) and part-time sickness absence (pSA).

Methods

We used register-based panel data for the period 2005-2016 on a 70% random sample of the Finnish working-age population. The relationships between employment sector and occupational exposures (% exposed to physically heavy work and job control score based on job exposure matrices) and the annual onset of fSA and pSA were investigated among men and women. First, random effects (RE) models were applied controlling for observed sociodemographic factors and then fixed effects (FE) models that examine within-individual changes over time and thereby further account for unobserved time-

SUBMITTER: Hartikainen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9045233 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature