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Later-life career disruption and self-rated health
— an analysis of general social survey data | | Author(s) | Y H He, A Colantonio, V W Marshall |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 22, no 1, Spring 2003 |
| Pages | pp 45-58 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Redundancy ; Unemployment ; Middle aged ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The transition from employment to retirement is changing dramatically in Canada and other industrialised societies, with a decreasing proportion of working life being spent in stable career progression. This study used a sample of 2,592 subjects aged 45-64 from the 1994 General Social Survey of Canada (GSS): Cycle 9, to describe situations of older Canadian workers' later-life career disruption (LLCD), and to investigate the association between LLCD and self-rated health. Results showed that a large proportion of older Canadian workers had experienced such LLCD as job interruption and job loss. Experience of job loss and job interruption over the previous 5-year period was found to be significantly associated with poor self-rated health, after controlling for age, education, body mass index (BMI), and activity limitation. However, after excluding respondents whose LLCD was known to be due to poor health, job interruption and job loss were separately found not to be significantly associated with poor health. The complexity of the findings and the direction of causation between LLCD and self-rated health, as well as some methodological issues, are discussed. Areas of future research are indicated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051010202 A |
| Classmark | WI: WH6: SE: CC: F: 3F: 7S |
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