abstract: 'Objectives: We investigate associations between adverse employment

  histories over an extended time period and health functioning in later

  life, and explore whether national labor market policies moderate the

  association.

  Methods: We use harmonized life-history data from the Gateway to Global

  Aging Data on two European studies (SHARE and ELSA) linked to health

  beyond age 50 (men = 11,621; women = 10,999). Adverse employment

  histories consist of precarious, discontinued, and disadvantaged careers

  between age 25 and 50, and we use depressive symptoms, grip strength,

  and verbal memory as outcomes.

  Results: Adverse employment histories between age 25 and 50 are

  associated with poor health functioning later in life, particularly

  repeated periods of unemployment, involuntary job losses, weak labor

  market ties, and disadvantaged occupational positions. Associations

  remain consistent after adjusting for age, partnership history,

  education and employment situation, and after excluding those with poor

  health prior to or during working life. We find no variations of the

  associations by national labor market policies.

  Discussion: Our study calls for increased intervention efforts to

  improve working conditions at early career stages. Despite the

  importance in shaping employment histories, the role of national

  policies in modifying the impact of employment on health is less clear.'
affiliation: 'Wahrendorf, M (Corresponding Author), Heinrich Heine Univ Dusseldorf,
  Med Fac, Ctr Hlth \& Soc, Inst Med Sociol, Moorenstr 5, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany.

  Wahrendorf, Morten; Hoven, Hanno; Deindl, Christian; Lunau, Thorsten, Heinrich Heine
  Univ Dusseldorf, Med Fac, Ctr Hlth \& Soc, Inst Med Sociol, Moorenstr 5, D-40225
  Dusseldorf, Germany.

  Zaninotto, Paola, UCL, Dept Epidemiol \& Publ Hlth, London, England.'
author: Wahrendorf, Morten and Hoven, Hanno and Deindl, Christian and Lunau, Thorsten
  and Zaninotto, Paola
author-email: wahrendorf@uni-duesseldorf.de
author_list:
- family: Wahrendorf
  given: Morten
- family: Hoven
  given: Hanno
- family: Deindl
  given: Christian
- family: Lunau
  given: Thorsten
- family: Zaninotto
  given: Paola
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa049
eissn: 1758-5368
files: []
issn: 1079-5014
journal: 'JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL

  SCIENCES'
keywords: Employment histories; Work stress; Life course; Health functioning
keywords-plus: 'DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS; WORKING-CONDITIONS; WELFARE REGIMES; D SCALE;

  INEQUALITIES; MORTALITY; STRESS; PERSISTENCE; INSECURITY; QUALITY'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '67'
orcid-numbers: Zaninotto, Paola/0000-0003-3036-0499
pages: S27-S40
papis_id: d6e3a6559e3569925a99f7fa0651610f
ref: Wahrendorf2021adverseemployment
researcherid-numbers: 'Hoven, Hanno/AAE-8912-2020

  '
times-cited: '8'
title: 'Adverse Employment Histories, Later Health Functioning and National Labor
  Market Policies: European Findings Based on Life-History Data From SHARE and ELSA'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000671140800004
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '76'
web-of-science-categories: 'Geriatrics \& Gerontology; Gerontology; Psychology; Psychology,

  Multidisciplinary'
year: '2021'