diabetes causes more workloss days evidence on us data shows that diabetes increases the number of workloss days by days per year in women tunceli et al and up to days within a week period for diabetes with complications ng et al whereas a us study showed that from to diabetes was responsible for billion in lost income due to early retirement vijan et al another us study failed to find evidence for a causal relationship between diabetes and the age of full retirement dwyer et al cancer has a negative impact on employment probability worked hours and work absence the strength of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes depends on individual characteristics and disease characteristics