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Disability, Retirement and Unemployment of Older Men*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

D. Piachaud
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Abstract

Among older men in England from 1971 to 1981 the increase in the extent of those defined as disabled was of the same order as the increase in unemployment. Using Census data for the forty-six counties of England, changes in disability, retirement and economic activity are related to changes in unemployment. A substantial proportion of the overall increase in disability and the decline in economic activity is attributable to the general rise in unemployment.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 145 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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