Occupational status and health transitions
By: G. Brant Morefield, David C. Ribar, Christopher J. Ruhm
Contributors: Ribar, David Christopher; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16794; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16794.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S.  males.  A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health.  These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses.  The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out" faster with age because they are more likely, than their white-collar counterparts, to experience negative health shocks.  This partly reflects differences in the physical demands of blue-collar and white-collar jobs"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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