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- Nordenmark, Mikael, 1964-, et al.
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Psychosocial wellbeing and reasons for retirement in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ageing & Society. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0144-686X .- 1469-1779. ; 29:3, s. 413-430
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Given the increased heterogeneity of the transition from work to retirement, this study aimed to analyse the associations between different reasons for retirement and psychosocial wellbeing as a pensioner. The study used data from the Swedish Panel Survey of Ageing and the Elderly (PSAE), a nationally representative survey of the living conditions of older people in Sweden. The results show that almost one-half of all pensioners cited health problems as a contributory reason for ceasing work. Furthermore, those who retired for ‘push’ reasons, such as health problems or labour market factors, experienced lower psychosocial wellbeing than those who retired for other reasons. Moreover, the results show that those who were able to influence the time of their retirement enjoyed better psychosocial wellbeing than those who had little or no opportunity to do so. This was true when controlling for other factors relevant to the wellbeing of pensioners. The results lend support to the argument that, if a man's retirement is instigated because his skills are no longer required, there will be a decidedly negative effect on his wellbeing – and that this effect is stronger than the equivalent impact on a woman's wellbeing. In relation to previous findings in this field, the results make it clear that retirement is far from a uniform process or state.
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- Edlund, Jonas, et al.
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Hälsoutvecklingen i Sverige 1980-2001
- 2005
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 42:1, s. 27-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article analyses the general health development in Sweden, 1980-2001. Data comes from Statistics Sweden’s annual survey on living conditions (ULF). By the means of Latent Class Analysis, the aims of the article are the following: (1) to describe how various health indicators are structured together and thus forming different patterns of health-profiles, (2) to show how these health-profiles change over time, and (3) to analyze how the links between health-profiles and demographic characteristics change over time. The empirical analysis consists of two parts. In the first part, the structure of health and its development over time are analyzed. The second part focuses on health developments over time for different demographic groups. The following conclusions are drawn. During the studied period, the health of the Swedish population has decreased, particularly during the latter part of the 1990s. This general pattern holds for most demographic groups. There are some notable exceptions. For social class and age, data shows that the health situation over time has worsened significantly for the service classes and the young compared to the working class and the elderly. Most of the decrease in health observed over time is explained by increased rates of psychological and psychosocial ill-health.
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- Edlund, Jonas, et al.
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Hälsoutvecklingen i Sverige 1980 - 2001
- 2005
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; :1, s. 27-44
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- Hult, Carl, 1953-, et al.
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Age, policy changes and work orientation : comparing changes in commitment to paid work in four European Countries
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Population Ageing. - : Springer. - 1874-7884 .- 1874-7876. ; 2:3, s. 101-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Due to ageing populations and a future shortage of labour active people, there is a political ambition to prolong people’s work force activities in Europe. The question of this paper is to what degree policy changes aimed at prolonging people’s working lives have been successful in influencing peoples’ commitment to paid work during the studied period of time? The age patterns of non-financial employment commitment (EC) and organisational Commitment (OC) are examined from the perspective of policy changes in four European countries, using ISSP-data collected in 1997 and 2005 from Denmark, Great Britain, Hungary and Sweden. Because of hypothesised country and group differences in visibility and proximity of policy measures taken to increase labour market participation among older workers, Danish and Swedish people were expected to display some degree of general and intended attitudinal response to the policy changes and that the British and Hungarian response would be more gender divided. The results showed that policy changes overall had little intended effect on people’s attitudes to work. Instead, EC dropped dramatically in Hungary for all men from the age of 30 and over, and for Swedish men and Danish women in the 45–53 age group. OC decreased for Swedish men in the age 54 and over, and for Danish women in the 45–53 age group. The main exceptions were British and Hungarian women that displayed unchanged or even an increase in EC in the age group 54 and over.
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- Stattin, Mikael, et al.
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Occupation, work environment, and disability pension : A prospective study of construction workers
- 2005
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Ingår i: Scand J Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948. ; 33:2, s. 84-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: This study investigated the importance of occupation and work environment for the risk of disability pension among construction workers in Sweden. Methods: The data include around 389,000 construction workers who participated in health examinations from 1971 to 1992. During that period 68,000 participants received disability pension in some form. Between 1985 and 1992 questionnaires were used to collect data regarding hazards in the work environment. Some 87,000 participants answered that questionnaire, and almost 6,000 of these were in receipt of a disability pension. To analyse the risk of disability pension in different occupations, incidence rates (SIR) were calculated according to the person-year method. Logistic regression was used to calculate age-controlled odds ratios according to physical and psychosocial work environment factors. Results: The results show considerable variation in risk for disability pension between different occupations within the construction industry. Furthermore, analysis of work environment factors indicated associations with physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial work environment factors. Discussion: A considerable variation between occupations indicates that characteristics in the work situation are important when explaining the risk of disability pension. The results from this study indicate that improvements in working conditions are an important area of intervention in order to facilitate and prolong labour market participation among elderly people.
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- Stattin, Mikael, 1959-
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Pension preferences and work environment
- 2009
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Ingår i: Promotion of Work Ability towards Productive Aging. - : CRC Press. - 9780415485906 ; , s. 143-154
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