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Employment and Health Trajectories

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This chapter considers a number of hypotheses relating to the pathways or “trajectories” of individuals in terms of their labour force participation and health status. The author uses data from adjacent waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to determine answers to questions about whether past experience affects current employment participation and health status, whether labour force participation and health status patterns cluster into groups, and whether labour force participation and health status run in parallel.

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Acknowledgements

This work was done during a UPTAP Mid-career Research Fellowship supported by ESRC (RES-163-27-1004) and mentored by Professor David Blane, Imperial College London; Professor Melanie Bartley, University College London; and Professor Richard Wiggins, Institute of Education, London. The author is currently supported by ESRC Grant RES-596-28-0001.

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  1. Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health, London, UK

    Gopalakrishnan Netuveli

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Netuveli, G. (2010). Employment and Health Trajectories. In: Stillwell, J., Norman, P., Thomas, C., Surridge, P. (eds) Spatial and Social Disparities. Understanding Population Trends and Processes, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8750-8_9

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