Chronic patients as retirement-aged workers: the impact of employment-based health insurance and chronic conditions on health-related working capacity and late-life career participation

Bocong Yuan, Jiachun Fang, Jiannan Li () and Fei Peng
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Bocong Yuan: Sun Yat– sen University
Jiachun Fang: Sun Yat– sen University
Jiannan Li: Beijing Normal University
Fei Peng: Sun Yat– sen University

European Journal of Ageing, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, No 40, 1362 pages

Abstract: Abstract Retirement-aged workers with chronic conditions are increasingly engaged in late-life careers in the policy context of delayed retirement initiative. However, it remains uncertain as to how chronic conditions and employment-based social health insurance interact to affect health-related working capacity and late career participation in this group of people. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and the discrete choice model, this study finds that chronic conditions are negatively associated with health-related working capacity (– 0.400, p

Keywords: Health-related working capacity; Late-life career participation; Retirement-aged workers; Social health insurance; Chronic conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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