Table 3 Employment transitions, income change and psychological distress*.

	Men		Women
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Transition from employment to†
Unemployment
Not worse off financially	1.48	0.95 to 2.33	0.58	0.34 to 1.00
Worse off financially	4.19	3.20 to 5.50	4.89	3.48 to 6.88
Retirement
Not worse off financially	0.79	0.42 to 1.46	1.35	0.83 to 2.18
Worse off financially	1.14	0.67 to 1.93	1.11	0.71 to 1.72
Family care
Not worse off financially	–	–	1.27	1.00 to 1.63
Worse off financially	–	–	2.28	1.80 to 2.91
Transition to employment from†
Unemployment
Not better off financially	1.03	0.71 to 1.51	1.15	0.76 to 1.75
Better off financially	0.34	0.25 to 0.48	0.43	0.28 to 0.65
Family care
Not better off financially	–	–	0.94	0.63 to 1.41
Better off financially	–	–	1.13	0.56 to 2.26

*Models are adjusted for current age (time t) psychological distress, limiting illness, marital status, caring status, home ownership and manual occupational class (all measured at time, t−1).

†Reference categories are “stay employed” for models of transitions from employment to non‐employment, and “stay non‐employed” for models of transitions from non‐employment to employment.