This study investigates whether the risk of long-term sickness absence among professionals de- pends upon their socioeconomic position and whether they do caring work. It also explores whether the variation in risk can be attributed to sociodemographic and labor market factors.The event history analysis is based on longitudinal register data from the entire population of Norwegian professionals from 2003 to 2013.The results showed that both low socioeconomic position and being a care worker was associated with long-term sickness absence.The group with the highest risk was professionals of lower socioeconomic position doing caring work.While the results were similar for men and women, the relative risk of sickness absence was higher for male professionals. Sociodemographic and labor market factors partly explained the observed association, and even more so for men. Several candidate explanations for the remaining association as well as potential implications for social policy are discussed.

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专业人士长期缺病：调查性别，社会经济地位和护理工作

这项研究调查了专业人士长期缺勤的风险是否取决于他们的社会经济地位以及他们是否从事护理工作。事件历史分析是基于2003年至2013年整个挪威专业人士的纵向登记数据，结果表明，社会经济地位低下和社会经济地位低下，都对风险的变化是否可以归因于社会人口统计学和劳动力市场因素进行了研究。护理人员与长期缺勤有关，风险最高的人群是从事护理工作的社会经济地位较低的专业人员，尽管男女的结果相似，但男性缺勤的相对风险较高。社会人口学和劳动力市场因素部分解释了观察到的关联，对于男人来说更是如此。讨论了有关剩余关联的几种候选解释以及对社会政策的潜在影响。