Juliane Tetzlaff, Jelena Epping, Jona Theodor Stahmeyer, Falk Liebers, Janice Hegewald, Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller, Fabian Tetzlaff
Musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) are a major predictor of early retirement. Against the backdrop of the extension of working life, we investigated time trends and educational inequalities in years spent in the labour market free of MSD. Based on German statutory health insurance data (N = 3,405,673), total life years free of MSD (Healthy Life Expectancy, HLE) and years spent in the labour force free of MSD (Healthy Working Life Expectancy, HWLE) were estimated for three periods (2006-2008, 2011-2013, 2016-2018) using multistate analyses...
April 4, 2024: Scientific Reports