Interrelationships between education, occupational social class, and income as determinants of disability retirement

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-166

  Leinonen, Taina ^a   Martikainen, Pekka ^a   Lahelma, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disability retirement; education; income; population register; social class

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PENSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PENSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84858059595     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494811435492     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Krokstad S. Johnsen R. Westin S. Social determinants of disability pension: a 10-year follow-up of 62 000 people in a Norwegian county population. Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:1183–91.
2. Krokstad S. Magnus P. Skrondal A. Westin S. The importance of social characteristics of communities for the medically based disability pension. Eur J Public Health 2004;14:406–12.
3. Bruusgaard D. Smeby L. Claussen B. Education and disability pension: a stronger association than previously found. Scand J Public Health 2010;38:686–90.
4. Wallman T. Wedel H. Palmer E. Rosengren A. Johansson S. Eriksson H. et al. Sick-leave track record and other potential predictors of a disability pension. A population based study of 8,218 men and women followed for 16 years. BMC Public Health 2009;9:104.
5. Dahl S.-Å. Nilsen Ø.A. Vaage K. Gender differences in early retirement behaviour. Eur Sociol Rev 2003;19:179–98.
6. Hagen K.B. Holte H.H. Tambs K. Bjerkedal T. Socioeconomic factors and disability retirement from back pain. A 1983–1993 population-based prospective study in Norway. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2000;25:2480–7.
7. Hagen K.B. Tambs K. Bjerkedal T. What mediates the inverse association between education and occupational disability from back pain? A prospective cohort study from the Nord-Trøndelag health study in Norway. Soc Sci Med 2006;63:1267–75.
8. Holte H.H. Tambs K. Bjerkedal T. Manual work as predictor for disability pensioning with osteoarthritis among the employed in Norway 1971–1990. Int J Epidemiol 2000;29:487–94.
9. Blekesaune M. Solem PE. Working conditions and early retirement: a prospective study of retirement behavior. Res Aging 2005;27:3–30.
10. Dahl S.-Å. Nilsen Ø.A. Vaage K. Work or retirement? Exit routes for Norwegian elderly. IZA discussion paper 32. Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor, 1999.
11. Hakola T. Navigating through the Finnish pension system. VATT discussion paper 224. Helsinki: Government Institute for Economic Research, 2000.
12. Haukenes I. Mykletun A. Knudsen A.K. Hansen H-T Maeland JG. Disability pension by occupational class – the impact of work-related factors: the Hordaland Health Study Cohort. BMC Public Health 2011;11:406.
13. Leinonen T. Pietiläinen O. Laaksonen M. Rahkonen O. Lahelma E. Martikainen P. Occupational social class and disability retirement among municipal employees – the contribution of health behaviors and working conditions. Scand J Work Environ Health 2011;37:464–72.
14. Månsson N-O Råstam L. Eriksson K-F Israelsson B. Socioeconomic inequalities and disability pension in middle-aged men. Int J Epidemiol 1998;27:1019–25.
15. Gubéran E. Usel M. Permanent work incapacity, mortality and survival without work incapacity among occupations and social classes: a cohort study of ageing men in Geneva. Int J Epidemiol 1998;27:1026–32.
16. Laine S. Gimeno D. Virtanen M. Oksanen T. Vahtera J. Elovainio M. et al. Job strain as a predictor of disability pension: the Finnish public sector study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:24–30.
17. Labriola M. Lund T. Self-reported sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension. Prospective findings from the DWECS / DREAM study 1990–2004. Int J Med Sci 2007;4:153–8.
18. Krause N. Lynch J. Kaplan G.A. Cohen R.D. Goldberg D.E. Salonen JT. Predictors of disability retirement. Scand J Work Environ Health 1997;23:403–13.
19. Liberatos P. Link B.G. Kelsey JL. The measurement of social class in epidemiology. Epidemiol Rev 1988;10:87–121.
20. Lynch J. Kaplan G. Socioeconomic position. In: Ed. Berkman L.F. Kawachi I. editors. Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. 13–35.
21. Galobardes B. Shaw M. Lawlor D.A. Lynch J.W. Davey Smith G. Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1). J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:7–12.
22. Lahelma E. Martikainen P. Laaksonen M. Aittomäki A. Pathways between socioeconomic determinants of health. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:327–32.
23. Shaw M. Galobardes B. Lawlor D.A. Lynch J. Wheeler B. Smith GD. The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Concepts and measures. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2007.
24. Bratberg E. Disability retirement in a welfare state. Scand J Economics 1999;101:97–114.
25. Finnish Centre for Pensions (ETK) and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA). Statistical yearbook of pensioners in Finland 2008. Helsinki: ETK and KELA, 2010.
26. OECD. The OECD list of social indicators. Paris: OECD, 1982.
27. Martikainen P. Blomgren J. Valkonen T. Change in the total and independent effects of education and occupational social class on mortality: analyses of all Finnish men and women in the period 1971–2000. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007;61:499–505.
28. Martikainen P. Valkonen T. Moustgaard H. The effects of individual taxable income, household taxable income, and household disposable income on mortality in Finland, 1998–2004. Popul Stud (Camb) 2009;63:147–62.
29. OECD. OECD Factbook 2010. Economic, environmental and social statistics. OECD, 2010. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/publications/factbook (2010).
30. Hytti H. Early exit from the labour market through the unemployment pathway in Finland. European Societies 2004;6:256–97.