Abstract
Past scholarship documents a strong and positive relationship between workforce participation and health. Yet many “Baby-Boomer” men in the US do not have access to long-term stable work, instead experiencing accumulating time spent unemployed and/or out of the workforce during midlife. We use over thirty years of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth - 1979 cohort to investigate relationships between men’s group-based multi-trajectories of workforce participation and health, examining workforce participation from ages 27-49, and health at ages 50 and 60. We include place-based measures evaluating the roles of the area unemployment rate, the state minimum wage, and state-level union density for these relationships. Our findings reveal whether increasing time spent unemployed (and seeking work) has different health consequences than time spent out of work (and not seeking work), and whether those who remain stably employed over time experience similar health to those who do not reach full employment until their late thirties and forties.
Presenters
Adrianne FrechAssociate Professor of Population Health, Department of Social Medicine, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Diversity Over Time: Changes in Individual, Organizational, and Place Contexts
KEYWORDS
Longitudinal; Labor Force; Health; United States; Place
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