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Is a Blue-collar Job Bad for Your Long-term Health?

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  • Shinya Kajitani

    (Meisei University)

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.

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  • Shinya Kajitani, 2013. "Is a Blue-collar Job Bad for Your Long-term Health?," Discussion Papers 23, Meisei University, School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:mei:wpaper:23
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    Cited by:

    1. Yoshiaki Hoshino & Ryuichiro Ishikawa & Akira Yamazaki, 2013. "Unequal Distribution of Powers in a Wicksellian Transfer Game," Discussion Papers 24, Meisei University, School of Economics.
    2. Akira Yamazaki, 2013. "Production Atomless Economies," Discussion Papers 25, Meisei University, School of Economics.

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    Keywords

    discrete time duration model; disease; health; occupation; physical ability;
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    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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