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The Role of Ethnicity in the Disability and Work Experience of Preretirement-Age Americans

Author(s) -

Linda A. Wray

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/36.3.287

Subject(s) - ethnic group , gerontology , health and retirement study , work (physics) , psychology , demography , medicine , political science , sociology , mechanical engineering , law , engineering

Using the 1992 HRS, this study examines the effects of social and demographic risk factors, including ethnicity, as well as health and job characteristics on disability and work status among 8,701 preretirement-age Americans with work history. Analytic results indicated that non-Anglo ethnicity was not a significant predictor of disability status but that being African American was a strong significant predictor of being a past versus current worker. The primary predictors of disability and work status were health behaviors, effects of health conditions, job characteristics, and workplace adaptations, factors that lend themselves to policy manipulation.

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