Impact of Health Status and Related Factors on Labor Market Positions of Urban Mature Chinese

Lijian Qin () and Zhen Wang

Journal of Labor Research, 2015, vol. 36, issue 2, 224-231

Abstract: Based on the data collected from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, this study examines the associations of health and socio-economic-demographic-related factors with labor force participation in urban mature Chinese aged 40–59 years. We found that that people with self-perceived ill-health were 34 % more likely to retired early than those who self-rated as healthy. The self-assessed ill-health were found to be 105 % more likely to be unemployed than the healthy. Self-reported ill-health was 28 % more likely to be homemakers than healthy people, although the odds ratios between the two groups were not significantly different statistically. Remarkably different from what has been observed in the developed countries, obesity did not have a notable impact on retirement of Chinese urban residents from labor force. Other factors that significantly contribute to the increased probability of being out of labor force were gender (female had high odds ratio for being out of labor force), education level (the lower the education level, the higher the odds ratios), as well as age (older people were more likely to be out of labor force). Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Self-perceived ill-health; Labor force non-participation; Urban Chinese (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s12122-015-9204-1 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jlabre:v:36:y:2015:i:2:p:224-231

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/12122

DOI: 10.1007/s12122-015-9204-1

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Labor Research is currently edited by Ozkan Eren

More articles in Journal of Labor Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().