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abstract

  • AbstractThis chapter focuses on how labor market experiences affect workers' health. It presents an integrated framework for thinking about how work may influence health, with a specific focus on the cumulative effects of labor market experiences over the work career. The evidence documenting the biological consequences of adverse work experiences is then briefly reviewed. The chapter continues with a description of significant changes in the structure and organization of work over the past two decades and their implications for the health of working-age adults. Finally, it outlines some potential implications of these labor market changes for public and private sector labor market policies and practices, based on the belief that active labor market policies are not incompatible with robust economic growth.

publication date

  • 2006