Chances of Employment in a Population of Women and Men after Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease: Gender-Specific Comparisons between Patients and the General Population

22 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2008

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Siegfried Geyer

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Kambiz Norozi

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Reiner Buchhorn

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Armin Wessel

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Date Written: March 2008

Abstract

It was examined whether women and men (17-45 years) with operated congenital heart disease (CHD) differ with respect to chances of employment. Patients were compared with the general population. Patients (N=314) were classified by type of surgery (curative, reparative, palliative) as indicator of initial severity of disease. The second classification was performed according to a system proposed by the New York Heart Association in order to take subjectively reported impairments into account. Controls (N=1165) consisted of a 10% random sample drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Chances of full-time employment decreased as disease severity increased. Chances of part-time and minor employment were higher in patients than among controls. These general effects were due to male patients, while the employment patterns of women did not differ from the control group. Independently of patient status women were more likely to have lower rates of full-time employment, and the rates of part-time and minor employment were higher. Long-term adaptation to impairments due to congenital heart disease differs between women and men with respect to employment status. While female patients do not differ from the general population, males may lower their engagement in paid work.

Keywords: congenital heart disease, employment, unemployment, gender

Suggested Citation

Geyer, Siegfried and Norozi, Kambiz and Buchhorn, Reiner and Wessel, Armin, Chances of Employment in a Population of Women and Men after Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease: Gender-Specific Comparisons between Patients and the General Population (March 2008). SOEPpaper No. 91, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1103423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1103423

Siegfried Geyer (Contact Author)

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Kambiz Norozi

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Reiner Buchhorn

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Armin Wessel

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