Sustainable working life: early determinants and later predictors – a longitudinal twin study
Labor market non-participation may cause adverse effects for individuals, their families, and the society, but may also be associated with negative relational, financial, and psychological factors. Risk factors for labor market non-participations in terms of SA and DP have been widely studied, but sustainable working life far less.
In this project sustainable working life is defined as the absence of labor market non-participation due to unemployment, rehabilitation, sickness absence (SA), or disability pension (DP).
The aims are to investigate the associations between early life factors and sustainable working life and to study genetic and environmental influences on the causes of individual variation in liability to sustainable working life using twin design. With such design we will explore if the variation in sustainable working life is due to genetics, environmental factors shared by twins or environmental factors unique to each twin.
This project utilize data from the Swedish Twin project Of Disability pension and Sickness absence (STODS) which is an extensive population-based data source of about 160 000 twin individuals with follow-up of comprehensive surveys and national registries.