Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis

Feer, Sonja; Lipps, Oliver; Dratva, Julia; Baumann, Isabel

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314

Publication type:	Conference poster
Type of review:	Peer review (abstract)
Title:	Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis
Authors:	Feer, Sonja Lipps, Oliver Dratva, Julia Baumann, Isabel
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314
Published in:	European Journal of Public Health
Volume(Issue):	31
Issue:	Supplement_3
Conference details:	14th European Public Health Conference, online, 10-12 November 2021
Issue Date:	11-Nov-2021
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	331: Labor economics 610: Medicine and health
Further description:	Objectives: We investigate how individual trajectories of health status and labor force participation among older workers in Switzerland are interrelated and how this relationship varies by occupation. Methods: We use data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) to analyze the long-term trajectories of older workers, measured in terms of working hours and general health status. The sample includes more than 7,000 workers aged 50 to 65(men)/64(women). We run a bivariate response multilevel model for growth that allows examining between- and within-individual changes over time. Results: All occupational groups become more heterogeneous in terms of health status with increasing age. At the same time, working hours decrease in all occupational groups with increasing age. A look at the individual level indicates that the working hours of manual workers seem to be more dependent on their health status compared to those of non-manual workers and that this dependence increases over time. This result confirms our hypothesis that the labor market participation of manual workers is more sensitive to their health status. Conclusions: Our findings contribute to the debate about the importance of older workers' health in the context of working life extension. Key messages: - All occupational groups become more heterogenous in terms of health status with increasing age, however working hours of manual workers seem to be more dependent on their health status. - Manual workers experience a stronger effect of health on working hours and that this effect increases over time, therefore prevention of ill health may be particularly beneficial in manual workers.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/24058
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Health Sciences
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Public Health (IPH)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Kontext einer Verlängerung des Arbeitslebens
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Gesundheit

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Feer, S., Lipps, O., Dratva, J., & Baumann, I. (2021). Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis [Conference poster]. European Journal of Public Health, 31(Supplement_3). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314

Feer, S. et al. (2021) ‘Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis’, in European Journal of Public Health. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314.

S. Feer, O. Lipps, J. Dratva, and I. Baumann, “Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis,” in European Journal of Public Health, Nov. 2021, vol. 31, no. Supplement_3. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314.

FEER, Sonja, Oliver LIPPS, Julia DRATVA und Isabel BAUMANN, 2021. Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis. In: European Journal of Public Health. Conference poster. 11 November 2021

Feer, Sonja, Oliver Lipps, Julia Dratva, and Isabel Baumann. 2021. “Health Status and Labour Force Participation among Older Workers in Switzerland : A Growth Curve Analysis.” Conference poster. In European Journal of Public Health. Vol. 31. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314.

Feer, Sonja, et al. “Health Status and Labour Force Participation among Older Workers in Switzerland : A Growth Curve Analysis.” European Journal of Public Health, vol. 31, no. Supplement_3, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314.