Labour Market Status and Mortality Risk: The Finnmark Cohort Study 1987-2017

Overview

Journal Scand J Public Health

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 May 19

PMID 37204234

Authors

Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen

Tonje Braaten

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Abstract

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the age-varying mortality risk associated with different labour market status categories.

Methods: Data from a population-based survey carried out among adults aged 30-62 years in Finnmark in 1987/1988 were linked to the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry to identify all deaths occurring by December 2017. We used flexible parametric survival models to examine the age-varying associations between different labour market status categories (no paid work/homemaker, part-time work, full-time work, unemployment benefits, sick leave/rehabilitation allowance, and disability pension) and mortality.

Results: Men with part-time work, unemployment benefits, sick leave/rehabilitation allowance, or disability pension had an increased mortality risk compared with men with full-time work; however, these findings were restricted to ages below 60-70 years, varying with labour market status category. For women, excess mortality was linked to disability pension in the younger age groups; in older age groups it was linked to the labour market status category no paid work/homemaker. Non-employment was associated with low education level compared with full-time employment.

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