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Being accommodating in the workplace: could it help close the disability employment gap? 

Posted on August 17, 2021August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

In 2020, 8.4 million people of working age (16-64) reported that they were disabled which is 20% of the working age population. 52 percent of disabled people aged 16-64 were in work compared with  81 percent of non-disabled people. It’s a gap the Department for Work and Pensions wants to tackle, but good research for evidence-based…

Youth unemployment and later mental ill-health: who is at risk?

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 by Chris Garrington

The pandemic has brought links between unemployment and mental health to the fore. With joblessness having risen across the globe, new research looking at the longer-term effects is particularly timely. Liam Wright and colleagues from UCL’s Department of Epidemiology and Public health describe new research which could motivate efforts to target vulnerable groups and use…

Lockdown – just how stressful has it been?

Posted on January 5, 2021January 4, 2021 by Chris Garrington

2020 is a year many will be happy to see the back of. It has been a stressful time for sure with periods of lockdown creating major challenges for our day to day work and family lives. But have the stresses and strains associated with lockdown affected the mental health of the UK population as…

Is temporary employment bad for your health?

Posted on December 3, 2019November 15, 2019 by Chris Garrington

How is the health of those in insecure jobs affected by their working lives? Rachel Sumner and colleagues* have discovered some types of work may be just as strongly linked with poor health as unemployment is. It’s long been acknowledged that there’s a link between unemployment and poor health. A recent Government Green Paper put…

Job prospects: does it matter where we live when we are young?

Posted on June 4, 2019August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

What are the influences on our employment prospects across our working lives? Could where we live when we’re young be important when we’re older – regardless of our social class or level of education? A new study by Emily Murray and colleagues from UCL, King’s College, London and Queen Mary, University of London, finds if…

Can ‘nudge’ theory help extend working lives?

Posted on February 18, 2019August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

Government policy in the UK and other industrialised countries aims to increase the numbers of people staying on in work for longer – but there are significant differences between different groups. Can social and economic factors explain them? Or is there truth in the suggestion that some groups of workers are ‘resistant’ to staying in…

Early retirement – can welfare systems help ease the transition?

Posted on November 28, 2018November 28, 2018 by Chris Garrington

The post-war ‘baby boom’ generation in developed countries is reaching retirement age – and this is placing strain on welfare systems. Sol Richardson and colleagues from the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL find the type of welfare system under which we live can affect our prospects of having a happy and fulfilled…

Does education and job status affect the length of our working lives?

Posted on May 14, 2018August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

Who is most at risk of leaving work due to poor health? In a major international research project, Ewan Carr from the renEWL team has worked with colleagues at UCL, King’s College and Queen Mary University of London in the UK, INSERM and Paris Descartes University in France and the University of Turku in Finland to find out more…

Staying at work longer – a matter of geography?

Posted on March 8, 2018August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

There are lots of reasons why people end their working lives early, and the relationships between those reasons are complex. We know, for instance, that if you’re a carer for someone close to you, if you’re unwell yourself or if you don’t have higher level qualifications then you’re more likely to stop working sooner. But…

A question of support: working longer and what works

Posted on February 5, 2018August 8, 2022 by Chris Garrington

As more of us work for longer, it’s important to recognise the needs of older workers: and that includes the fact that as we age we are more likely to suffer from long-term illnesses. To what extent do our working conditions affect our decisions about whether or not to continue in a job despite having…

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