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Mental and physical health: re-assessing the relationship with employment propensity

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  • Gail Pacheco

    (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

  • Dom Page

    (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)

  • Don J Webber

    (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)

Abstract

There is significant research demonstrating the labour market disadvantage experienced by the disabled community. Yet, relationships between wider ill-health concepts and employment are poorly investigated. This article presents an empirical investigation into the impacts of poor mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. The results indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues significantly affect the propensity to be employed. Further investigations reveal the significance of an interacted variable that captures the multiplicative effect of both physical and mental health, illustrating that the combined effect of both health domains can be more influential than separate pathways. Additional empirical analysis highlights gender and ethnicity divides. It is also found that mental health is mostly exogenous to employment propensity. This research provides evidence that mental and physical health related issues can lead to economic exclusion.

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  • Gail Pacheco & Dom Page & Don J Webber, 2014. "Mental and physical health: re-assessing the relationship with employment propensity," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 28(3), pages 407-429, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:28:y:2014:i:3:p:407-429
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    1. Vincent Vandenberghe, 2021. "Work beyond the age of 50. What role for mental versus physical health?," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 35(3), pages 311-347, September.
    2. Walsh, Brendan & Doorley, Karina, 2022. "Occupations and health," Papers BP2023/3, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    3. Jasmijn Slootjes & Sawitri Saharso & Saskia Keuzenkamp, 2019. "Ethnic Minority Health and Employment: Ethnic Differences in the Protective Effect of Close Social Ties," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 619-638, May.
    4. Don Webber & Dom Page & Michail Veliziotis, 2017. "Mental health and employment transitions: a slippery slope," Working Papers 20171702, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol.

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