"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …