Educational mismatch and mortality among native‐born workers in Sweden. A 19‐year longitudinal study of 2.5 million over‐educated, matched and under‐educated individuals, 1990–2008

This study tests the hypothesis that a disjuncture between an individual's attained level of education and that held by average workers in the individual's occupation leads to higher mortality among those with a prolonged mismatched status. Swedish register data are used in a 19‐year longi...

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Published in:Sociology of health & illness 2015-11, Vol.37 (8), p.1314-1336
Main Author: Garcy, Anthony M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Death
Education Work Relationship
Educational Attainment
educational mismatch
Educational Status
Employment
Female
Foreign Countries
Gender Differences
Health
Health problems
Human body
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Middle Aged
Mortality
Mortality - trends
Mortality rates
Multivariate Analysis
Occupations - economics
over-education
Overachievement
Sociology
Sociology, Medical
status incongruence
Stress, Psychological
Sweden
Sweden - epidemiology
under-education
Underachievement
Workers
Young Adult
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Summary:This study tests the hypothesis that a disjuncture between an individual's attained level of education and that held by average workers in the individual's occupation leads to higher mortality among those with a prolonged mismatched status. Swedish register data are used in a 19‐year longitudinal mortality follow‐up study of all causes and specific causes of mortality. Participants were all men and women born between 1926 and 1985 who were alive on 1 September 1990, who had concurrent information on their attained level of education and the specific occupation or industry they were employed in during this period for at least a consecutive year. An objective measure of educational and occupational mismatch was constructed from these data. Those with a stable, over‐educated matched, or under‐educated employment status are included in the final analysis (N = 2,482,696). Independent of social, family, employers’ characteristics and prior health problems, the findings from a multivariate, stratified Cox regression analysis suggest there is excessive mortality among the over‐educated, and a protective effect of under‐education among native‐born Swedish men and women.
ISSN:0141-9889
1467-9566
1467-9566
DOI:10.1111/1467-9566.12312