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Does labour market disadvantage help to explain why childhood circumstances are related to quality of life at older ages?
— Results from SHARE | | Author(s) | Morten Wahrendorf, David Blane |
| Journal title | Aging and Mental Health, vol 19, no 7, 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 584-594 |
| Source | http://tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Employment ; Employment of older people ; Life span ; Quality of life ; European Union ; Cross national surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | There is robust evidence that childhood circumstances are related to quality of life in older ages, but the role of possible intermediate factors is less explored. The authors examine the extent to which associations between deprived childhood circumstances and quality of life at older ages are due to experienced labour market disadvantage during adulthood. Analyses are based on the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), with detailed retrospective information on individual life courses for 10,272 retired men and women in 13 European countries (2008-2009). The authors' assumption is that those who have spent their childhood in deprived circumstances may also have had more labour market disadvantage. with negative consequences for quality of life beyond working life. Results demonstrate that advantaged circumstances during childhood are associated with lower levels of labour market disadvantage and higher quality of life in older ages. Furthermore, results of multivariate analyses support the idea that part of the association between childhood circumstances and later quality of life is explained by labour market disadvantage during adulthood. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151113218 A |
| Classmark | WJ: GC: BG6: F:59: WFC: 3K: 74 |
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