 Is a Blue-collar Job Bad for Your Long-term Health?Shinya Kajitani ()
No 23, Discussion Papers from Meisei University, School of Economics Abstract: There have been relatively few studies in economics on the relationship between the decline in individuals' health over time and the nature of their work. By considering healthy individuals who later begin to suffer from a decline in physical ability or contract a disease, we examine whether the duration of good health differs among the longest-held occupations. Utilizing micro data on elderly Japanese workers and their respective longest-held occupations, we show that there is no significant difference between men and women regarding the probability of contracting a disease. However, the physical abilities of male blue-collar workers decline faster with age, especially after age 60, than those in other occupations. Therefore, we suggest that blue-collar jobs have a negative effect on the long-term physical ability of men. Keywords: discrete time duration model; disease; health; occupation; physical ability (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mei:wpaper:23 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Discussion Papers from Meisei University, School of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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