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Age and Work‐Related Health: Insights from the UK L abour F orce S urvey
Author(s) -
Davies Rhys,
Jones Melanie,
LloydWilliams Huw
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12059
Subject(s) - work (physics) , survey data collection , demographic economics , focus (optics) , psychology , measure (data warehouse) , sociology , public economics , economics , computer science , statistics , mathematics , engineering , data mining , mechanical engineering , physics , optics
Data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) are used to examine two methodological issues in the analysis of the relationship between age and work‐related health. First, the LFS is unusual in that it asks work‐related health questions to those who are not currently employed. This facilitates a more representative analysis than that which is constrained to focus only on those currently in work. Second, information in the LFS facilitates a comparison of work‐related health problems that stem from current employment to a more encompassing measure that includes those related to a former job. We find that accounting for each of these sources of bias increases the age work‐related health risk gradient, and suggest that ignoring such effects will underestimate the work‐related health implications of current policies to extend working lives.