D6.1 Impact of health and skills on the risk of weak labour market attachment

This paper aims to quantify the role of skills used at work in fostering labour market attachment of individuals with health limitations. We use data from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) Job skills ad hoc module conducted in 2022 to investigate if specific skills are related to a lower probability of weak labour market attachment among people with health limitations in Europe. We look at three weak labour market attachment indicators: economic inactivity, unemployment, and mismatch between worker’s actual and preferred number of work hours. We focus on the 25–54 age group, excluding older workers who are more likely to suffer from health limitations related to ageing.

The work is structured as follows: First, we introduce the data used and present descriptive evidence on the labour market attachment of persons with and without health limitations. In Section 3, we outline our methodology. In Section 4, we report our econometric results. In Section 5, we summarize the conclusions.

Authors: Katarzyna Lipowska, Marta Palczyńska