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Background In recent years, high mortality from cardiovascular diseases (chronic ischemic heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, cerebrovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, hypertensive diseases) and diabetes mellitus have burdened economic and health ...
Beata Gavurova, Tatiana Vagasova
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Linking pensions to longevity developments at retirement age has been one of the most common policy responses of pension schemes to aging populations. The introduction of automatic stabilizers is primarily motivated by cost containment objectives, but ...
Jorge M. Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso
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Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink [PDF]
Beginning in the 1940s, a wave of health innovations and more effective international public health measures led to a rapid and large improvement in health; for example, in some relatively poor countries, life expectancy at birth quickly rose from around
Acemoglu, Daron, Johnson, Simon
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Quality of working life expectations and capability [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to determine a set of factors that can represent the conception of a quality of work life with capability and expectations. This article discusses the main dimensions and meaning of quality of working life and its measurements. Also the system of three main levels to which it relates is introduced.
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Physical occupational exposures and health expectancies in a French occupational cohort. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationships of strenuous and hazardous working conditions and rotating shifts that involve night working with life expectancy in good perceived health and life expectancy without chronic disease. METHODS: The sample contained
Goldberg, M +5 more
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Prolongation of working life and its effect on mortality and health in older adults : propensity score matching [PDF]
Many countries are raising the age of pension eligibility because of increases in life expectancy. Given the social gradient in life expectancy and health, it is important to understand the potential late-life health effects of prolonging working life ...
Agahi, Neda +4 more
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Increasing labor force participation in older age requires investments in work ability
For well over 100 years, life expectancy in developed societies has increased by 2.5 years per decade (1). At first, most of the increase was due to decreased death rates at younger ages, but since the 1950s, the main reason has been better survival ...
Mikko Laaksonen
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Summary: Background: We aimed to estimate healthy working life expectancy (HWLE) at age 50 years by gender, cohort, and level of education in Australia.
Mitiku Teshome Hambisa, PhD +3 more
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50 is the new 30: Long-run trends of schooling and retirement explained by human aging [PDF]
Workers in the US and other developed countries retire no later than a century ago and spend a significantly longer part of their life in school, implying that they stay less years in the work force.
Strulik, Holger, Werner, Katharina
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Working Life Expectancies: The Case of Finland 1980–2006
SummaryWorking life expectancy is the future time that a person is expected to spend in employment. The paper is concerned with its estimation jointly with the expected times spent in the related states of ‘on disability pension’ and ‘other alive’. The method, which is novel in this field, first estimates year- and age-dependent probabilities of being ...
Nurminen, Markku M +3 more
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