%0 Journal Article %T Occupational class and working beyond the retirement age: a cohort study %A Virtanen­, Marianna %A Oksanen, Tuula %A Pentti, Jaana %A Ervasti, Jenni %A Head, Jenny %A Stenholm, Sari %A Vahtera, Jussi %A Kivimäki, Mika %J Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health %D 2017 %8 September 43 %N 5 %@ 0355-3140 %F Virtanen­2017 %X '

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OBJECTIVES ': 'The aim of this study was to examine occupational class differences in working more than six months beyond the mandatory retirement age and factors that may contribute to these differences.

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METHODS ': 'The study comprised a prospective cohort study of a total of 5331 Finnish municipal employees (73% women) who were not on work disability pension and reached the age eligible for old-age pension in 2005–2011. Occupational class included four categories: managers and professionals, lower grade non-manual, skilled manual, and elementary occupations. Survey responses while at work were linked to national health and pension registers.

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RESULTS ': 'A total of 921 participants (17.3%) worked beyond the pensionable age. Compared with elementary workers, skilled manual workers had a similar probability [gender-adjusted risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.72–1.23] while lower grade non-manual workers had a 2.03-fold (95% CI 1.59–2.58), and managers and professionals had a 1.79-fold (95% CI 1.41–2.27) probability of working beyond the pensionable age. Adjustment for physical workload (32.0% in lower non-manual, 36.7% in managers and professionals), work time control (20.4% and 11.4%) and perceived work ability (16.5% and 29.1%) contributed to the largest attenuation for these associations. Analyses using a counterfactual approach suggested greater mediated effects for physical workload and work time control than those observed in traditional mediation analyses.

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CONCLUSIONS ': 'Employees with higher occupational classes are two times more likely to continue working beyond the retirement age compared to those with lower occupational classes. A large proportion of these differences were explained by having physically light job, better work time control, and better self-rated work ability among employees with high occupational class.

%K cohort study %K counterfactual %K health %K mediation working condition %K occupational class %K retirement %K socioeconomic %R 10.5271/sjweh.3645 %U https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3645 %U https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3645 %P 426-435