Journal
HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 580-596Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1734
Keywords
health; Whitehall studies; GHQ; locus of control; job satisfaction; mortality; status
Funding
- Region Ile-de-France
- Economic and Social Research Council [PTA-026-27-2665]
- Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick
- ESRC [ES/I001840/1, ES/H021248/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H021248/1, ES/I001840/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper examines the hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. It begins by successfully replicating the well-known cross-section association between health and job seniority. Then, however, it turns to longitudinal patterns. Worryingly for the hypothesis, the dataon a large sample of randomly selected British workers through timesuggest that people who start with good health go on later to be promoted. The paper can find relatively little evidence that health improves after promotion. In fact, promoted individuals suffer a significant deterioration in their psychological well-being (on a standard General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) mental ill-health measure). Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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