abstract: 'Governments are encouraging workers to remain in employment beyond

  traditional retirement age. A tangible expression of this in Australia

  is the move to raise the Aged Pension access age from 65 to 67 by 2023.

  This policy assumes that the majority of workers will be able to extend

  their working lives. However, even at the age of 65, one-third of older

  workers have left their jobs involuntarily, with poor health an

  important reason for exit. Yet the significance of worker health for

  maintaining or limiting employment is not reflected in current policy

  architecture. This article draws on the Household Income and Labour

  Dynamics in Australia Survey and uses a prospective, longitudinal study

  design. Our analysis estimates the extent poor health limits working

  past 50 and the ways in which health-related risk are compounded by

  other forms of labour market disadvantage. We find that having a chronic

  health condition is associated with a five-fold increase in the risk of

  involuntary retirement from work. Moreover the overwhelming majority of

  those with a health condition will leave the labour market because of

  it. We also find evidence that labour market disadvantage linked to

  caregiving, occupation and job quality compounds health-related

  involuntary retirement.'
affiliation: 'Welsh, J (Corresponding Author), Australian Natl Univ, Natl Ctr Epidemiol
  \& Populat Hlth, Res Sch Populat Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  Welsh, Jennifer; Strazdins, Lyndall; D''Este, Catherine, Australian Natl Univ, Natl
  Ctr Epidemiol \& Populat Hlth, Res Sch Populat Hlth, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

  Charlesworth, Sara, RMIT Univ, Coll Business, Sch Management, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

  Kulik, Carol T., Univ South Australia, Sch Management, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

  D''Este, Catherine, Univ Newcastle, Fac Hlth \& Med, Sch Med \& Publ Hlth, Callaghan,
  NSW, Australia.'
author: Welsh, Jennifer and Strazdins, Lyndall and Charlesworth, Sara and Kulik, Carol
  T. and D'Este, Catherine
author-email: Jennifer.Welsh@anu.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Welsh
  given: Jennifer
- family: Strazdins
  given: Lyndall
- family: Charlesworth
  given: Sara
- family: Kulik
  given: Carol T.
- family: D'Este
  given: Catherine
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/10301763.2018.1522609
eissn: 2325-5676
files: []
issn: 1030-1763
journal: 'LABOUR \& INDUSTRY-A JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF

  WORK'
keywords: 'Extended employment; older workers; involuntary retirement; worker

  health; job quality'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; 10-YEAR FOLLOW-UP; PAID EMPLOYMENT;

  ILL-HEALTH; POOR HEALTH; EXIT; DISABILITY; UNEMPLOYMENT; INTENTIONS;

  PREDICTORS'
language: English
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '60'
orcid-numbers: 'Welsh, Jennifer/0000-0003-4415-5920

  Kulik, Carol T/0000-0002-6558-8234

  Strazdins, Lyndall/0000-0001-5158-6855'
pages: 261-278
papis_id: 0896c9c266b1b345666b60b46add6eb1
ref: Welsh2018losingworkers
researcherid-numbers: 'Welsh, Jennifer/W-5123-2019

  Kulik, Carol T/A-9912-2008

  '
times-cited: '5'
title: 'Losing the workers who need employment the most: how health and job quality
  affect involuntary retirement'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000456331200003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '28'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor
year: '2018'