Health Status of Working Pensioners

摘要

This article draws out two points of view regarding the health of working pensioners. The study presented in the article is aimed at testing two hypotheses put forward on the basis of analysis of theoretical models and sociological surveys of the population. The first hypothesis is about that the labor activity of pensioners contributes to the preservation of their health, and the second - only those healthy pensioners continue to work. As a criterion for verifying the research hypotheses, two multivariate linear regression models were constructed that estimated the statistical relationships between employment, health status of pensioners, and other variables. Based on the calculation of determinant of correlation matrix, the presence of a linear relationship between the explanatory variables in the regression models was excluded. The study was conducted on the example of women of 55-59 years of age according to statistical data. The results of the regression analysis confirmed only the first hypothesis, the second one was rejected.