TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boyce, Christopher J.
AU  - Oswald, Andrew J.
        TI  - Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?
        PY  - 2008/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3894
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3894
        AB  - This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people's psychological strain (on a GHQ score). For the public sector, there are some tentative signs of the reverse. We discuss caveats to our conclusions, suggest caution in their interpretation, and argue that further longitudinal studies are needed.
        KW  - job satisfaction
KW  - locus of control
KW  - GHQ
KW  - Whitehall studies
KW  - health
KW  - mortality
KW  - status
        ER  -