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EmploymEnt, Work, And hEAlth InEquAlItIEs - a global perspective
Figure 19. hypothetical years of life lost by the male and female populations of sweden compared to the
average life expectancy of each labour market cluster of countries in 2005.
120
core semi-peripheral Peripheral
years Y (millions)
100
80
60
40
20
6
3
6
3
Men
Women
6 6
3 3
25
14
25
19
28
25
85
76
42
33
39
36
74
73
96
92
0
Social Democratic
Corporatist
conservative
Liberal
Social Liberal
Residual
Emergent
Informal
Patriarcal
country clusters
Post-comunist
Informal less
successful
Insecure
Most insecure
source: prepared by the authors
knowledge gaps, we adopt a “realist” perspective on current
knowledge regarding social mechanisms linking employment
relations to health inequalities. Therefore, we seek to compile
evidence from various sources that are compatible with our model
(see chapter 4). This also means that we may not have enough
information to confirm every pathway included in our model. despite
this, we should be able to find evidence that is broadly compatible
with the pathways hypothesised by the model. We concentrate here
on the relationship between employment conditions and health.
These dimensions may share some common pathways (e.g. lack of
autonomy at work leading to mental illness) but may also be
characterised by specific pathways (e.g., child labour leading to low
growth). at the proximal level, the pathways between social stress
and disease (in large part a direct or indirect consequence of
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