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ArticleJournal of aging and health2026

Working Through It: Lifetime Experiences of Employment Discrimination Among Older Black Americans and Implications for Labor Force Participation, Job Dissatisfaction, and Mental Health in Older Adulthood.

Leah R Abrams, Yuan S Zhang, Ayisha D Munsey, Muna A Farah, Lauren L Brown

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Article in Journal of aging and health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Occupational position and complexity in relation to Black-White cognitive disparities.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Leah R AbramsDepartment of Community Health, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
Yuan S ZhangDepartment of Sociomedical Sciences and Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1290-9305
Ayisha D MunseySchool of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Muna A FarahSchool of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Lauren L BrownLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1681-8267

Funding

TRAINING IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF AGINGT32AG000221 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Sarah A. Burgard · 1992 to 2026
$15.3M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN GERONTOLOGYT32AG000037 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI JENNIFER A AILSHIRE, EILEEN M CRIMMINS · 1985 to 2026
$13.2M
A cross-national comparative study on cardiometabolic risk, education, and cognitive agingR00AG070274 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ZHANG, YUAN S · 2023 to 2025
$721k
Measuring stress and epigenetic aging among Black older adults in longitudinal studies of agingK01AG081842 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Lauren Brown · 2023 to 2026
$582k
A cross-national comparative study on cardiometabolic risk, education, and cognitive agingK99AG070274 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ZHANG, YUAN S · 2021 to 2022
$191k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG081842NIA NIH HHS K99 AG070274NIA NIH HHS L30 AG064751NIA NIH HHS R00 AG070274NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000037NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000221
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ObjectivesTo examine lifetime experiences of employment discrimination and their association with Black older adults' employment status and well-being.MethodsWe use data from the Health and Retirement Study's leave-behind questionnaire to characterize lifetime experiences of being unfairly fired, not hired, or not promoted among Black older adults (

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Black or African AmericanEmploymentJob SatisfactionMental HealthRacismAgedDepressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesWhitedepressionemployment discriminationracismwork

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PMID38881277
PMCPMC12040428

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