Effects of female labour force attachment on health in Australia

Title: Effects of female labour force attachment on health in Australia
Creator: Lajeunesse, Robert M.
Relation: International Review of Applied Economics Vol. 24, Issue 4, p. 423-436
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2010.483794
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: This study examines the impact of female labour force attachment on health in Australia, where health care is socially provided. Longitudinal panel data from Women’s Health Australia is used in a metric analysis to capture the impact of labour market attachment on the physical component health score of relatively young and older female workers. After controlling for the healthy worker effect – wherein firms hire and retain the healthiest workers – and other health-related changes in socio-economic status, the analysis suggests that even a moderate attachment to the paid labour force has benevolent effects on health relative to no or marginal attachment. Given the existing social structure in Australia, remunerative work generally appears to enhance the health of young women and arrest the decline of health for older female workers.
Subject: labour force participation; health; enhancement effect; long work hours
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929936
Identifier: uon:10712
Identifier: ISSN:0269-2171
Language: eng
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