Age and work-related health: insights from the UK Labour Force Survey

Davies, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3479-625X, Jones, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0535-8090 and Lloyd-Williams, Huw 2016. Age and work-related health: insights from the UK Labour Force Survey. British Journal of Industrial Relations 54 (1) , pp. 136-159. 10.1111/bjir.12059

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Abstract

Data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) are used to examine two methodological issues in the analysis of the relationship between age and work-related health. First, the LFS is unusual in that it asks work-related health questions to those who are not currently employed. This facilitates a more representative analysis than that which is constrained to focus only on those currently in work. Second, information in the LFS facilitates a comparison of work-related health problems that stem from current employment to a more encompassing measure that includes those related to a former job. We find that accounting for each of these sources of bias increases the age work-related health risk gradient, and suggest that ignoring such effects will underestimate the work-related health implications of current policies to extend working lives.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0007-1080
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 September 2018
Date of Acceptance:	3 January 2014
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 17:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/114876

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