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Working conditions as risk factors for disability retirement: a longitudinal register linkage study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2012
Background Early retirement due to disability is a public health and work environment problem that shortens working careers. Transition to disability retirement is based on ill-health, but working conditions are also of relevance.
Lahelma Eero   +7 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Life tables of disability beneficiaries by morbidity cause. Brazil, 1999-2002

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Población, 2013
The main goal of this paper is to estimate a Disability Beneficiaries Life Table from the General Social Security Regime for Private Sector Workers (RGPS) by sex, age and disability cause in Brazil using multiple-decrement models.
Marília Miranda Forte Gomes   +3 more
doaj   +13 more sources

Disability Testing and Retirement [PDF]

open access: yesThe B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007
Abstract We study the design of retirement and disability policies and illustrate the often observed exit from the labor force of healthy workers through disability insurance schemes. In our model, two types of individuals, disabled and leisure-prone ones, have the same disutility for labor and cannot be distinguished.
Cremer, Helmuth   +2 more
openaire   +13 more sources

Retirement and People with Intellectual Disability in the Australian Context

open access: yesDisabilities, 2023
This paper examines retirement by older workers with intellectual disability. Much research and intervention about retirement and intellectual disability in the last decade or so emanates from Australia, although there are some current cross-sectional ...
Roger J. Stancliffe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The genetic liability to disability retirement: a 30-year follow-up study of 24,000 Finnish twins. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND: No previous studies on the effect of genetic factors on the liability to disability retirement have been carried out. The main aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of genetic factors on disability retirement due to the most ...
Karoliina Harkonmäki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The longitudinal impact of employment, retirement and disability status on depressive symptoms among men living with HIV in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Many persons living with HIV (PLWH) either reduced their employment capacity or stopped work completely due to disease progression. With the advent of effective antiretroviral therapy, some PLWH were able to return to the workforce and many are now ...
Deanna Ware   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Self-rated health as a predictor of disability retirement--the contribution of ill-health and working conditions. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
OBJECTIVE: Self-rated health is a generic health indicator predicting mortality, many diseases, and need for care. We examined self-rated health as a predictor of subsequent disability retirement, and ill-health and working conditions as potential ...
Olli Pietiläinen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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