Differential Impact of Involuntary Job Loss on Physical Disability Among Older Workers Does Predisposition Matter?

TitleDifferential Impact of Involuntary Job Loss on Physical Disability Among Older Workers Does Predisposition Matter?
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsGallo, WT, Brand, JE, Teng, H-M, Leo-Summers, L, Byers, AL
JournalRes Aging
Volume31
Issue3
Pagination345-360
Date Published2009 May 01
ISSN Number1552-7573
Call Numbernewpubs20101112_Gallo.pdf
Abstract

Older workers' share of involuntary job losses in the United States has grown fairly consistently in recent decades, prompting greater interest in the health consequences of involuntary unemployment among individuals nearing retirement. In this study, the authors applied the multifactorial model of geriatric health to investigate whether late-career involuntary job loss was associated with subsequent physical disability and whether the effect of involuntary job loss on physical disability varied by predisposition. Using data from the first four waves (1992 to 1998) of the Health and Retirement Survey, the authors measured predisposition with individual risk factors for functional disability and indices of aggregate risk. The results of gender-specific models fit with generalized estimating equations revealed that unmarried women and those with low predisplacement incomes had heightened risk for subsequent functional disability. No differential effects of job loss were found for men.

DOI10.1177/0164027508330722
User Guide Notes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19924265?dopt=Abstract

Endnote Keywords

labor Force Participation/Unemployment/DISABILITY/DISABILITY/involuntary unemployment/older Workers

Endnote ID

23840

Alternate JournalRes Aging
Citation Key7412
PubMed ID19924265
PubMed Central IDPMC2778317
Grant ListK01 AG021983 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
K01 AG021983-05 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
R01 AG027045 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
K01 MH079093 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
P30 AG021342 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States