A dead-end job (DEJ) can be seen as an occupation that does not offer career opportunities: there are no career ladders and few opportunities for wage increments (Bihagen and Ohls 2007). There are several possible reasons for assuming that occupations in themselves differ in career chances and therefore that career chances are not only determined by the efforts and characteristics of individuals, e.g., human capital, but also by the occupation individuals are found in. Bihagen and Ohls (2007) suggest and describe a way of constructing measures of the career chances of occupations from data on the typical wage increments of individuals in different occupations based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88). Measures related to career chances of occupations can be used for a number of purposes, e.g., to study health and quality of life (QOL) outcomes. There is a vast literature on socioeconomic status (SES) and health/QOL (cf., Elo 2009; Graham 2007), but we do not find any on dead-end jobs and health/QOL. Bihagen and Ohls (2007) used measures of DEJ for shedding light on the question of whether women’s career chances in Sweden are due to an overrepresentation of women in occupations that generally lack career chances. Their results indicate that such an overrepresentation is one factor for women’s lacking career chances in Sweden.