A healthy labour market: creating a post-pandemic world of healthier work
Institute for Public Policy Research, London
IPPR - London
2022
32 p.
epidemic disease ; labour market ; occupational health ; mortality ; social inequality
Labour market
English
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"People in ‘working class jobs' have been around twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than those in ‘middle class jobs'. And those in the lowest paid occupations have experienced a mortality rate five times higher than those in the highest paid occupations.
The pandemic illustrated the complicated but critical relationship between work and health in real-time. Not only has it highlighted the importance of work as a determinant of health, but indicates the policy instruments most effective at improving population health.
As the pandemic reshapes labour markets and redefines attitudes to work, this report makes the case for why health should be put at the heart of work."
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