Occupational social class and disability retirement among municipal employees – the contribution of health behaviors and working conditions

Leinonen, Taina; Pietiläinen, Olli; Laaksonen, Mikko; Rahkonen, Ossi; Lahelma, Eero; Martikainen, Pekka

doi:10.5271/sjweh.3182

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“…Occupational class and education are strong predictors of disability pension comparing, for example, professionals with blue-collar workers (8,9). Most of the men in this study were manual workers with similar educational background.…”

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Heavy work and disability pension – a long term follow-up of Swedish construction workers

Järvholm¹,

Stattin²,

Robroek³

et al. 2014

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Heavy work and disability pension – a long term follow-up of Swedish construction workers

Järvholm¹,

Stattin²,

Robroek³

et al. 2014

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…Previous studies on workers in general have shown that high physical workload was associated with early retirement [28,29]. In a study in workers suffering from various chronic diseases, physical workload was associated with exit from the workforce because of work disability [30]. In these studies differences between workers with and without chronic disease were not examined.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Leinonen and colleagues showed that job control was associated with early exit from the workforce because of work disability in workers with mental disorders [30].…”

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Predictors of Having Paid Work in Older Workers With and Without Chronic Disease: A 3-Year Prospective Cohort Study

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Background As the prevalence of chronic disease amongst older workers is high and increasing, it is important to know if the large subgroup of older workers with chronic disease has specific needs when it comes to prolonging participation in paid work. Objectives To investigate differences and similarities in predictors of having paid work in workers aged 55? with and without chronic disease. Methods Workers aged 55-62 years were selected from the 2002-2003 cohort of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (n = 333). Potential predictors were: health, personality, work characteristics, and demographics. Per potential predictor, a logistic regression coefficient for 'having paid work in 2005-2006' was calculated for workers with and without chronic disease. A pooled estimate was computed and differences between the pooled estimate and the coefficients were tested. Results Follow-up data were available for 95 %, of whom 67 % still had paid work. Predictors of having paid work were similar for workers with and without chronic diseases, except for physical workload (v 2 = 5.37; DF = 1) and psychosocial resources at work (v 2 = 5.94; DF = 1). Having more psychosocial resources (OR = 3.57; 95 %CI 1.33-10.0) was predictive for having paid work in workers with chronic disease and not in workers without chronic disease. Lower age, more weekly working hours, no functional limitations, fewer depressive symptoms, lower neuroticism scores, and more sense of mastery were significantly associated with having paid work in all workers. Conclusions Differences between predictors of having paid work between workers with and without chronic disease should be taken into account when aiming to prevent exit from the workforce. In particular the vulnerable subgroup of older workers with chronic disease and low psychosocial resources at work is more likely to quit working.

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“…Studies on the former have found that both socio-demographic characteristics and socioeconomic position predict disability retirement: High age is a strong predictor (Gjesdal et al, 2004;Leinonen et al, 2011;Bruusgaard et al, 2010;Støver et al, 2012), as well as being a woman (Samuelsson et al, 2012;Krokstad and Westin, 2004;Bruusgaard et al, 2010;Støver et al, 2012), or unmarried (Leinonen et al, 2011;Samuelsson et al, 2012). Lower socioeconomic position has consistently been found to be strongly negatively associated with disability retirement, regardless of what measure of socioeconomic position that has been used: occupational class (Krokstad and Westin, 2004;Leinonen et al, 2011;Samuelsson et al, 2012), education (Gravseth et al, 2007;Samuelsson et al, 2012;Leinonen et al, 2011;Bruusgaard et al, 2010;Støver et al, 2012), income (Gjesdal et al, 2004;Leinonen et al, 2011), and unemployment (Leinonen et al, 2011;Støver et al, 2012). Studies on the socioeconomic determinants of impairment or disability per se are scarcer, but their findings suggest, unsurprisingly, that the same factors found to predict disability retirement also predict (self-reported) impairment and disability (Pascual and Cantarero, 2007;Reinhardt et al, 2013;Melo and Valdes, 2011).…”

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Factors Associated with Occupational Disability Classification

Angelov

Eliason

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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To provide disabled people with the same opportunities to participate in working life as everyone else, certain measures, such as wage subsidies, compensating for a reduced work capacity, might be necessary. To ascertain that these measures are limited to the most needy a system that identifies the target group is required. The Swedish Public Employment Service's (PES') classification of occupational disability constitutes such a system. In this study we document how jobseekers' demographic characteristics, socioeconomic position, and health-related conditions are associated with being classified as occupationally disabled by the PES, and how this classification might be distorted by unintended incentive mechanisms. Our empirical analyses show that both previous health conditions and previous socioeconomic disadvantages were associated with a higher likelihood of being classified as occupationally disabled. To what extent these jobseekers actually had impairments that entailed reduced work capacity cannot be concluded from the available data, but our results indicate that also the goals set by the government may have influenced how the PES classified jobseekers.

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Occupational social class and disability retirement among municipal employees – the contribution of health behaviors and working conditions

Cited by 95 publications

References 38 publications

Heavy work and disability pension – a long term follow-up of Swedish construction workers

Heavy work and disability pension – a long term follow-up of Swedish construction workers

Predictors of Having Paid Work in Older Workers With and Without Chronic Disease: A 3-Year Prospective Cohort Study

Factors Associated with Occupational Disability Classification

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