Arbeitspapier

Do people become healthier after being promoted?

This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people's psychological strain (on a GHQ score). For the public sector, there are some tentative signs of the reverse. We discuss caveats to our conclusions, suggest caution in their interpretation, and argue that further longitudinal studies are needed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3894

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Health
Whitehall studies
GHQ
locus of control
job satisfaction
mortality
status
Erwerbsverlauf
Gesundheit
Arbeitszufriedenheit
Großbritannien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Boyce, Christopher J.
Oswald, Andrew J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2008

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081219163
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Boyce, Christopher J.
  • Oswald, Andrew J.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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