CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS ON HEALTH
CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS ON HEALTH
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.1616
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Yamaguchi, Shintaro
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作者：
Fletcher, Jason M.;Sindelar, Jody L.;Yamaguchi, Shintaro
本研究探讨工作特性的体力需求与环境条件是否会影响个体的健康。这些工作特点的五年累积措施被用来反映在生物和生理文献中的发现，表明累积暴露于危险和压力危害健康。为了创建我们的分析样本，我们将职业头衔词典中的工作特征与PSID数据集合并。我们控制了早期和滞后的健康措施和一组预先确定的特征，试图解决个人自我选择工作的问题。我们的研究结果表明，在“最差”条件下工作的人的健康状况会下降，尽管这种影响因人口统计学群体而异。我们还发现一些证据表明，工作特征对女性和老年工人的健康更有害。最后，我们报告暗示性的证据表明，收入，工作的特点，部分缓冲的身体需求和恶劣的环境条件对工人的健康影响。这些结果是强大的职业固定效应。版权所有（C）2010约翰威利父子有限公司
We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in the biological and physiological literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to hazards and stresses harms health. To create our analytic sample, we merge job characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles with the PSID data set. We control for early and also lagged health measures and a set of pre-determined characteristics to try to address concerns that individuals self-select into jobs. Our results indicate that individuals who work in jobs with the 'worst' conditions experience declines in their health, though this effect varies by demographic group. We also find some evidence that job characteristics are more detrimental to the health of females and older workers. Finally, we report suggestive evidence that earned income, a job characteristic, partially cushions the health impact of physical demands and harsh environmental conditions for workers. These results are robust to inclusion of occupation fixed effects. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.