Happiness and life expectancy by main occupational position among older workers: Who will live longer and happy?
Aging
Happy life expectancy
Occupation
Spain
Journal
SSM - population health
ISSN: 2352-8273
Titre abrégé: SSM Popul Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101678841
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
Historique:
received:
19
10
2020
revised:
08
01
2021
accepted:
09
01
2021
entrez:
29
1
2021
pubmed:
30
1
2021
medline:
30
1
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Current concerns about aging populations are being translated into legislations to postpone the statutory age at retirement. However, if this is done without considering inequalities in longevity across occupational groups, some may face higher vulnerabilities than others. We examine differences in life expectancy and happiness by occupational position for the Spanish population aged 50 and over. We use happiness as a measure of subjective wellbeing, and compute life expectancy and happy life expectancy by sex and main occupation. Age-specific death rates are calculated using administrative data, and happiness prevalence comes from the European Social Survey. We show that both men and women in managerial positions were advantaged in terms of life expectancy, but only men record more years with happiness. In addition, women in routine jobs were the ones who could expect to live shorter and unhappier. Postponing the statutory age at retirement without considering these differences could be detrimental to women's wellbeing and health.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33511266
doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100735
pii: S2352-8273(21)00010-0
pmc: PMC7815996
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100735Informations de copyright
© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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