Occupational Status and Health Transitions
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Brant Morefield
Abstract
We use longitudinal data from the 1984-2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30-59 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 a difference in movements from bad to very good health. Service work is also associated with a higher probability of transitioning into bad health and possibly with a lower probability of recovery. These findings suggest that blue-collar and service workers “wear out” faster with age because they are more likely than their white-collar counterparts to experience negative health shocks. There is also evidence that this partly reflects differences in the physical demands of jobs.
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- Socioeconomic Status and Health Over the Life Course and Across Generations: Introduction to a Special Issue and Overview of a Unique Data Resource
- Advances Article
- Attrition in Models of Intergenerational Links Using the PSID with Extensions to Health and to Sibling Models
- The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course
- Health Dynamics and the Evolution of Health Inequality over the Life Course: The Importance of Neighborhood and Family Background
- Contributions Article
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- Decomposing the Intergenerational Disparity in Income and Obesity
- Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
- Topics Article
- Estimating the Education-Health Relationship: A Cost-Utility Approach
- Occupational Status and Health Transitions
