Table 8

Financial loss from reduced working hours

Country

N

Annual average loss

Lifetime average losses

*[$] [se]

**[$] [se]


Brazil

151

827[235]

5849 [1572]

China

215

77 [24]

678 [182]

Germany

161

923 [368]

8099 [3181]

Turkey

55

2,014 [585]

20,805 [6486]

UK

64

2,176 [924]

18,153 [8690]

USA

31

1,805 [1,223]

11,205 [8459]

Total Weighted

677

880

7,365

average***


*Average working hours lost × local average wage × $ppp

**Sum of annual income loss each year up to statutory retirement age discounted to present value at 3.5% per annum

*** Weighted average across whole sub-sample of 677 with work loss.

Fletcher et al. BMC Public Health 2011 11:612   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-612

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