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Who keeps on working? The importance of resilience for labour market participation
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258444 (2021), PLOS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background It is widely recognized that individuals’ health and educational attainments, commonly referred to as their human capital, are important determinants for their labour market participation (LMP). What is less recognised is the influence of individuals’ latent resilience traits on their ability to sustain LMP after experiencing an adversity such as a health shock. Aim We investigate the extent to which resilience is independently associated with LMP and moderates the effect of health shocks on LMP. Method We analysed data from two consecutive waves of a Norwegian prospective cohort study. We followed 3,840 adults who, at baseline, were healthy and worked full time. Binary logistic regression models were applied to explain their employment status eight years later, controlling for age, sex, educational attainment, health status at baseline, as well as the occurrences of three types of health shocks (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, psychological problems). Individuals’ resilience, measured by the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), entered as an independent variable and as an interaction with the indicators of health shocks. In separate models, we explore the role of two further indicators of resilience; locus of control, and health optimism. Results As expected, health shocks reduce the probability to keep on working full-time. While both the RSA and the two related indicators all suggest that resilience increases the probability to keep on working, we did not find evidence that resilience moderates the association between health shocks and LMP. Conclusion Higher levels of resilience is associated with full-time work as individuals age.
- Subjects :
- Male
Economics
Health Status
Social Sciences
Cardiovascular Medicine
Logistic regression
Geographical Locations
Medical Conditions
Sociology
Neoplasms
Medicine and Health Sciences
Odds Ratio
Prospective Studies
media_common
Human Capital
Multidisciplinary
VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801
Norway
Mental Disorders
Middle Aged
Resilience, Psychological
Europe
Locus of control
Oncology
Health Education and Awareness
Cardiovascular Diseases
Medicine
Educational Status
Female
Psychological resilience
Psychology
Research Article
Employment
Adult
Full-time
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Cardiology
Jobs
Human capital
Education
Optimism
Humans
Educational Attainment
Aged
Cancers and Neoplasms
Labor Markets
Educational attainment
Health Care
Logistic Models
Labor Economics
People and Places
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258444 (2021), PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....971173bdbb9c20fc8508e325a3b58171