Volume 25 - Article 12 | Pages 407–436  

Occupational inequalities in health expectancies in France in the early 2000s: Unequal chances of reaching and living retirement in good health

By Emmanuelle Cambois, Caroline Laborde, Isabelle Romieu, Jean-Marie Robine

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