Work-related health in Europe: Are older workers more at risk?

Arbeitspapier

This paper uses the fourth European Working Conditions Survey (2005) to address the impact of age on work-related self-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older workers differ significantly from younger workers regarding their job-related health risk perception, mental and physical health, sickness absence, probability of reporting injury and fatigue. Accounting for the 'healthy worker effect', or sample selection in so far as unhealthy workers are likely to exit the labour force we find that as a group, those aged 55-65 years are more 'vulnerable' than younger workers: they are more likely to perceive work-related health and safety risks, and to report mental, physical and fatigue health problems. As previously shown, older workers are more likely to report work-related absence.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6044

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General
• Subject: mental health ; physical health ; absence ; fatigue ; endogeneity ; healthy worker selection effect ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Gesundheitsrisiko ; Ältere Arbeitskräfte ; Vergleich ; Junge Arbeitskräfte ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jones, Melanie K. ; Latreille, Paul L. ; Sloane, Peter J. ; Staneva, Anita V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58567
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263882
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET