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Health factors and early retirement among older workers
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By Jungwee Park
Among full-time workers age 40 to 52 in 1994/1995, 35% of those who negatively perceived their health had left the labour force by 2006/2007 compared with 16% of those with positive self-assessed health.
For each additional chronic condition, there was a 25% increase in the risk of early retirement for men.
Compared with other workers, men who consumed five or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion at least once per month or smoked daily were almost twice as likely to exit the labour force.
Obese female workers were 1.6 times more likely than the non-obese to retire early.
Women with high-strain jobs were almost twice as likely as their colleagues with low-strain jobs to exit the labour force early.
Men who felt that they had low support from their supervisors had almost twice the risk of retiring early compared with those who had support.
