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Health effects of involuntary job loss among older workers
— findings from the health and retirement survey | | Author(s) | William T Gallo, Elizabeth H Bradley, Michele Siegel |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp S131-S140 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Redundancy ; Employment of older people ; Retirement ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using longitudinal data from the 1992 and 1994 waves of the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), multivariate regression models were estimated to assess the impact of involuntary job loss on both physical functioning and mental health. The analysis sample included 209 workers who had experienced involuntary job loss between survey dates and a comparison group of 2,907 continuously employed workers. The effects of late-life involuntary job loss on both follow-up physical functioning and mental health were negative and statistically significant (p < .05), even after baseline health status and sociodemographic factors were controlled for. Among displaced workers, re-employment was positively associated with both follow-up physical functioning and mental health, whereas duration of joblessness was not significantly associated with either outcome. The findings provide evidence of a causal relationship between job loss and morbidity among older workers. The relationship is reflected in both poorer physical functioning and mental health for workers who experience involuntary job loss, which may also be important health consequences, particularly among older workers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825229 A |
| Classmark | CC: D: WI: GC: G3: 3F: 7T |
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