GENDER, HEALTH, AND EXTENDED WORKING LIFE IN IRELAND

Extended working hours and health.

Statistical analyses of the relation between the amount of working hours and impairments to health, based on data from a European survey on working conditions in 2000, clearly reveal that there is a substantial correlation between the number of working hours per week and the frequencies of health complaints. This applies to both musculo-skeletal disorders as well as to psycho-vegetative complai...

[Gender influence on health related quality of life among resident physicians working in an emergency department].

BACKGROUND The high emotional burden of physicians working in emergency departments may affect their quality of life perception. AIM To evaluate health related quality of life among resident physicians performing shifts at an emergency department. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy one physicians aged 26,3 ± 1,7 years (47 women), working as residents in an emergency department, answered the short...

Extended Working Paper Version: The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions

This paper examines the evolution of the gender gap in the United States for several decades, including the most recent recession. We simultaneously address two largely overlooked issues, namely a) heterogeneity and b) selection in labor force participation. We find that these considerations argue in favor of broader definitions and measures of the gender gap that better reflect heterogeneity a...

Class - Specific Gender Gaps in Health . the Role of Gender and Working Conditions within Classes

Barriers and facilitators to extended working lives in Europe: a gender focus

Background There is a global imperative to respond to the challenge of a growing 'old-age dependency ratio' by ensuring the workforce is healthy enough to remain in work for longer. Currently more than half of older workers leave before the default retirement age, and in some countries (e.g. the UK), the time spent in retirement is increasing. At the same time across Europe, there is a gender e...