Wels, Jacques;
Hamarat, Natasia;
(2021)
A shift in women’s health? Older Workers’ Self-Reported Health and Employment Settings during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
European Journal of Public Health
, 32
(1)
pp. 80-86.
10.1093/eurpub/ckab204.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The first wave of COVID-19 has had a massive impact on work arrangements settings in many European countries with potential effects on health that are likely to vary across gender. METHODS: Focusing on the workforce aged 50 and over in 27 European countries using data from SHARE wave 8 (N = 11,221), the study applies a generalized logit mixed-effects model to assess the relationship between negative and positive change in self-reported health since the start of the pandemic and change in employment settings using an interaction effect between gender and employment arrangements to distinguish their specific association by gender after controlling for socio-economic covariates and multicollinearity. RESULTS: Female respondents have higher probabilities to declare a positive health when working fully or partially from home or when temporarily and permanently unemployed. However, introducing the main effect of gender exacerbates discrepancies and such benefits fade away. Differences across countries do not significantly change the estimates. CONCLUSION: The benefits of work arrangements to improve women’s health during the first wave of COVID-19 have not compensated the negative effect of gender discrepancies exacerbated by the pandemic to the extent that employment arrangements have no role, or just a negative impact, in modulating them.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | A shift in women’s health? Older Workers’ Self-Reported Health and Employment Settings during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/eurpub/ckab204 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab204 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | employment, women's health, gender, unemployment, pandemics, self-report, covid-19, coronavirus pandemic |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine > MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth and Ageing UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154689 |
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