Health and Labour Force Participation: ‘Stress’, Selection and the Reproduction Costs of Labour Power*

摘要: This paper will discuss the applicability of concepts ‘stress’ and ‘selection’ to which health researchers appealed in their attempts explain relationship between unemployment, examine implications some major studies carried out Europe USA for these competing approaches. The contradictions arising from this evidence then be addressed with aid a technical advance population statistics allows us test hypotheses about whether associations socio-demographic characteristics mortality may due selective mobility seriously ill persons into socially disadvantaged positions. It is concluded that better understanding results available reached if we avoid dichotomy ‘selection’, explore labour market processes reproduction costs power can throw new light on patterns force participation. aims both encourage consider policy variables more closely, tempt specialised latter fields apply recent advances interaction income maintenance policies question how economic conditions change affect health.