26: Is ill health driving economic inactivity, and what can be done about it? – with Sarah O’Connor and Professor James Banks
The Health Foundation podcast
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The Inverse U-Shape
It's difficult to say, really, it's going to be different between the people who are just leaving recently and the people who've left for a while. You've really got to look at what they were doing in the past rather than just the jobs of the most recent retirees. So you can get sort of wealthy early retirees or post-pandemic who have enough to live on but don't want to do same kind of work anymore. And then at the bottom end, you've got a sort of low-skill poor job, health constrains your ability to work.
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