- Title
- Workforce participation patterns over the life course and the association with chronic diseases – a gendered approach
- Creator
- Majeed, Tazeen
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- ‘Population ageing’ raises many challenges for governments, such as continued and prolonged workforce participation of men and women over their life course. This research aimed to i) identify and compare workforce participation patterns of men and women over the life course; ii) investigate the associations between workforce participation patterns, early life factors and adult life factors over the life course; iii) explore longitudinal associations between chronic diseases and workforce patterns, while considering the influence of various health and socio-demographic factors. Three different data sources – the ‘45 and Up Study’, the Australian ‘Life History and Health Survey’ and the ‘Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health’ were used. Latent class analysis (LCA), LCA with classify-analyse approach, logistic regression and multinomial regression were used in five different studies to identify and explore patterns of workforce participation and its different associations over the life course, with a gendered perspective. Findings from the studies indicate that workforce participation patterns over the life course are very different for men and women. While men were found to be mostly engaged in full time paid work, women were more likely to work part time. Also, many men may decrease work after age 55, and many women had lower workforce participation over the life course. The work patterns of young women without children were very similar to men – majority working full time. Chronic diseases (diabetes, asthma, depression and arthritis) and other early and adult life factors were associated with work patterns. However, these associations varied by gender and also dependent on how men and women responded to their long term health issues and various circumstances affecting them over the life course. Therefore, it is important to consider the role of gender in shaping workforce patterns and their association with chronic diseases over the life course.
- Subject
- Australia; workforce participation; women; Latent Class Analysis (LCA); employment; gender; chronic diseases; diabetes; asthma; depression; arthritis; life course
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1311933
- Identifier
- uon:22323
- Rights
- Copyright 2016 Tazeen Majeed
- Language
- eng
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