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Title: Does Occupational Mobility Influence Health among Working Women? Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Work Trajectories
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1. Wilkinson, Lindsay R.
Shippee, Tetyana P.
Ferraro, Kenneth
Does Occupational Mobility Influence Health among Working Women? Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Work Trajectories
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53,4 (December 2012): 432-447.
Also: http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/53/4/432.abstract
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Duncan Index; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Mobility, Occupational; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Occupations

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Occupational mobility is highly valued in American society, but is it consequential to women’s health? Previous studies have yielded inconsistent results, but most measured occupational mobility by identifying transitions across occupational categories. Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, this study (1) compares objective and subjective measures of work trajectories and (2) examines the contributions of each to self-rated health. With 36 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (1967-2003), growth curve models are used to estimate the effects of middle-aged work trajectories on health among 2,503 U.S. women. Work trajectories as measured by the Duncan Socioeconomic Index predict health, but not after adjustment for perceived work trajectories and status characteristics. The findings reveal that subjective measures of occupational mobility provide important information for assessing health consequences of work transitions and that downward occupational mobility in middle age is deleterious to women’s health in later life.
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Wilkinson, Lindsay R., Tetyana P. Shippee and Kenneth Ferraro. "Does Occupational Mobility Influence Health among Working Women? Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Work Trajectories." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53,4 (December 2012): 432-447.