Table 2.

Association between change in employment protection and pathways out of paid employment among employed persons in good or poor health in 23 European countries of a rotating panel (EU-SILC) between 2003 and 2014

	Exit from paid employment
	Unemployment	Early retirement	Disability	Economic inactivity	All pathways
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Decrease in employment protection of permanent workers
Among workers in good health	0.85 (0.42–1.74)	2.58 (1.30–5.10)	1.15 (0.61–2.16)	1.24 (0.72–2.14)	1.16 (0.88–1.54)
Among workers in poor health	0.99 (0.49–2.03)*	4.46 (2.26–8.78)*	1.69 (0.98–2.91)	1.15 (0.68–1.95)	1.52 (1.08–2.13)*
Decrease in employment protection of temporary workers
Among workers in good health	1.36 (1.06–1.75)	6.15 (3.09–12.22)	1.29 (0.80–2.10)	1.02 (0.58–1.80)	1.56 (1.18–2.06)
Among workers in poor health	1.40 (1.08–1.80)	6.42 (3.17–13.01)	1.39 (0.83–2.31)	0.92 (0.49–1.73)	1.63 (1.23–2.16)

OLS regression models included age, sex, education, GDP and employment protection×health with fixed effects for country and year.

*Significant interaction employment protection×health (p < 0.05).

See online supplementary table S4 for the value of OR’s for interactions.

EU-SILC, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions; GDP, gross domestic product; OLS, ordinary least squares.