Changes in Unemployment Affect Sickness Absence and Disability Retirement Rates: A Municipality-Level Panel Study [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 To enhance understanding of the interplay between unemployment and sickness absence and disability retirement, the aim of this study was to examine how changes in area-level unemployment rates are associated with changes in sickness absence and ...
Jenni Blomgren +2 more
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The Level and Development of Unemployment before Disability Retirement: A Retrospective Study of Finnish Disability Retirees and Their Controls [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 A weakening work ability may lead to a higher risk of gradual exclusion from working life, which may be manifested in increasing levels of unemployment.
Mikko Laaksonen +2 more
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Self-rated work ability as a risk factor for disability retirement. [PDF]
Eur J Public Health, 2023 Background Simple and efficient survey measures to predict staying in or leaving work are needed. We examined the association of single-item self-rated work ability (SRWA) with disability retirement in two large population-based samples and compared the ...
Kainulainen S +5 more
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Wage subsidies targeted to jobseekers with disabilities: subsequent employment and disability retirement [PDF]
IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2018 AbstractIn many countries, a non-negligible percentage of the working-age population has impairments that also entail reduced work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing the labour market inclusion among people with disabilities, such as targeted wage subsidies, are ...
Nikolay Angelov, Marcus Eliason
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2017 OBJECTIVE: Human resource primacy (HRP) refers to employees’ perceptions of how the organization shows interests in its employees’ welfare, happiness, and health.
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Stein Knardahl
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Previous studies indicate that psychological, social, and organizational factors at work contribute to health, motivation, absence from work, and functional ability.
Stein Knardahl +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2016 Disability retirement causes a significant burden on the society and affects the well-being of individuals. Early health problems as determinants of disability retirement have received little attention.
Heikki Frilander +4 more
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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have poorer work ability and higher disability retirement rate at midlife: a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study. [PDF]
Eur J Endocrinol, 2022 Objective Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) presents with multiple comorbidities potentially affecting function. This was the first general population-based study to evaluate work ability, participation in working life, and disability retirement in middle-
Kujanpää L +8 more
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Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland. [PDF]
Scand J Work Environ Health, 2020 OBJECTIVES: There is evidence that occupational healthcare (OHC) may improve employees’ work ability. This research was designed to study whether common quality improvement (QI) activities in the OHC quality network (OQN) – a voluntary collaborative ...
Kuronen J +3 more
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Work Resumption after a Fixed-Term Disability Pension: Changes over Time during a Period of Decreasing Incidence of Disability Retirement. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The incidence of disability retirement in Finland has sharply decreased over the last ten years. At the same time, the share of fixed-term pensions has increased to cover more than half of all new disability pensions.
Laaksonen M.
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