History of Low Hourly Wage and All-Cause Mortality Among Middle-aged Workers.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Earning a low wage is an increasingly recognized public health concern, yet little research exists on the long-term health consequences of sustained low-wage earning.

Objective

To examine the association of sustained low-wage earning and mortality in a sample of workers with hourly wage reported biennially during peak midlife earning years.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal study included 4002 US participants, aged 50 years or older, from 2 subcohorts of the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2018) who worked for pay and reported earning hourly wages at 3 or more time points during a 12-year period during their midlife (1992-2004 or 1998-2010). Outcome follow-up occurred from the end of the respective exposure periods until 2018.

Exposur

SUBMITTER: Kezios KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9945122 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature