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Work Disability and Divorce

  • This chapter uses German register to study the influence of divorce on the uptake of work disability. Information on work disability is included in the register data if sick leave extends beyond 42 days of illness. Thus, our analysis focuses on long-term health issues. We compare divorced men and women over a period of 12 years, starting 7 years before they filed for a divorce and ending 4 years thereafter. As a method, we use matching techniques, which enables us to compare the divorcees with a comparable control group of people who did not divorce. We show that health declined considerably around the time of separation and file opening. Even 4 years after they filed for a divorce, the divorcees’ risk of taking work disability was strongly elevated. However, a portion of the differences in the health status of the divorcees and the control group can be attributed to selection, because the health status of the divorcees had been lower than the health status of the control group 7 years before they filed for a divorce. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the societal consequences of divorce.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Daniel Brüggmann
Editor(s):Michaela Kreyenfeld, Heike Trappe
Parent Title (English):Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
Publisher:Springer
Place of Publisher:Cham
Publication year:2020
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:289
Last Page:308
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44575-1_14
ISBN:9783030445775
Release Date:2021/05/05
Tag:Divorce; Gender; Health; Self-selection; Work disability
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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