The Wear and Tear on Health: What Is the Role of Occupation?
Although it seems evident that occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We use a job characteristics matrix linked to German longitudinal data spanning 26 years to characterize occupations by their physical and psychosocial burdens. Employing a dynamic model to control for factors that simultaneously affect health and selection into occupations, we find that manual work and low job control both have a substantial negative effect on health that increases with age. The effects of late career exposure to high physical demands and low job control are comparable to a health deterioration due to aging 12 and 19 months, respectively.
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2013
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Authors: | Ravesteijn, Bastian ; Kippersluis, Hans van ; Doorslaer, Eddy van |
Institutions: | Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung "Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)", DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) |
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Extent: | application/pdf |
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Series: | SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research. - ISSN 1864-6689. |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Number 618 31 pages long |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896284
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