Health-related educational inequalities in paid employment across 26 European countries in 2005-2014: repeated cross-sectional study

Abstract: Objective: The study investigates the trends in health-related inequalities in paid employment among men and women in different educational groups in 26 countries in 5 European regions. Design: Individual-level analysis of repeated cross-sectional annual data (2005-2014) from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Setting: 26 European countries in 5 European regions. Participants: 1 844 915 individuals aged 30-59 years were selected with information on work status, chronic illness, educational background, age and gender. Outcome measures: Absolute differences were expressed by absolute differences in proportion in paid employment between participants with and without a chronic illness, using linear regression. Relative differences were expressed by prevalence ratios in paid employment, using a Cox proportional hazard model. Linear regression was used to examine the trends of inequalities. Results: Participants with a chronic illness had consistently lower labour force p

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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: BMJ Open ; 9 (2019) 5 ; 1-10

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2019
Creator
Schram, Jolinda L. D.
Schuring, Merel
Hengel, Karen M.
Oude Burdorf, Alex

DOI
10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024823
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74486-7
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Schram, Jolinda L. D.
  • Schuring, Merel
  • Hengel, Karen M.
  • Oude Burdorf, Alex
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2019

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