abstract: 'The Extending Working Lives (EWL) agenda seeks to sustain employment up

  to and beyond traditional retirement ages. This study examined the

  potential role of childhood factors in shaping labour force

  participation and exit among older adults, with a view to informing

  proactive interventions early in the life-course to enhance individuals''

  future capacity for extending their working lives. Childhood adversity

  and socioeconomic disadvantage have previously been linked to ill-health

  across the life-span and sickness benefit in early adulthood. This study

  builds upon previous research by examining associations between

  childhood adversity and self-reported labour force participation among

  older adults (aged 55). Data was from the National Child Development

  Study - a prospective cohort of all English, Scottish, \& Welsh births

  in one week in 1958. There was evidence for associations between

  childhood adversity and increased risk of permanent sickness at 55 years

  - which were largely sustained after adjustment for educational

  disengagement and adulthood factors (mental/physical health,

  qualifications, socioeconomic disadvantage). Specifically, children who

  were abused or neglected were more likely to be permanently sick at 55

  years. In addition, among males, those in care, those experiencing

  illness in the home, and those experiencing two or more childhood

  adversities were more likely to be permanently sick at 55 years.

  Childhood factors were also associated with part-time employment and

  retirement at 55 years. Severe childhood adversities may represent

  important distal predictors of labour force exit at 55 years,

  particularly via permanent sickness. Notably, some adversities show

  associations among males only, which may inform interventions designed

  to extend working lives. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Fahy, AE (Corresponding Author), UCL, Inst Womens Hlth, Dept Neonatol,
  Room 301 Rockefeller Bldg,Univ St, London WC1E 6DE, England.

  Fahy, AE (Corresponding Author), UCL, Inst Womens Hlth, Dept Neonatol, London, England.

  Fahy, A. E.; Stansfeld, S. A.; Smuk, M.; Clark, C., Queen Mary Univ London, Wolfson
  Inst Prevent Med, Ctr Psychiat, London, England.

  Lain, D., Univ Brighton, Brighton Business Sch, Brighton, MA USA.

  van der Horst, M.; Vickerstaff, S., Univ Kent, Sch Social Policy Sociol \& Social
  Res, Canterbury, Kent, England.

  Fahy, A. E., UCL, Inst Womens Hlth, Dept Neonatol, London, England.'
author: Fahy, A. E. and Stansfeld, S. A. and Smuk, M. and Lain, D. and van der Horst,
  M. and Vickerstaff, S. and Clark, C.
author-email: amanda.fahy@ucl.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Fahy
  given: A. E.
- family: Stansfeld
  given: S. A.
- family: Smuk
  given: M.
- family: Lain
  given: D.
- family: van der Horst
  given: M.
- family: Vickerstaff
  given: S.
- family: Clark
  given: C.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.023
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'Childhood social conditions; Disability pension; Adversity; Extending

  working life; Early retirement; Unemployment; Older adults; Economic

  activity'
keywords-plus: 'DISABILITY PENSION; MENTAL-DISORDERS; ILL-HEALTH; STRESS; PREDICTORS;

  RETIREMENT; POSITION; CONTEXT; ABUSE'
language: English
month: JUN
number-of-cited-references: '43'
orcid-numbers: 'Clark, Charlotte/0000-0003-3031-4986

  van der Horst, Mariska/0000-0002-5988-7318'
pages: 80-87
papis_id: 4f9f332c01292ad4e3d36de07116d477
ref: Fahy2017longitudinalassociat
times-cited: '22'
title: Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage
  during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000402945000010
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '21'
volume: '183'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2017'