Are Fixed-Term Jobs Bad for Your Health?: A Comparison of West-Germany and Spain

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu

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“…xii It was unfortunately not possible to conduct separate analyses by gender due to cell size. Nonetheless, previous analyses on temporary workers' transitions have used a similar strategy to the one here (Hagan, 2003;McGinnity, Mertens and Gundert 2005;Giesecke and Groβ 2003), though others have found considerable differences by sex (Gash, Mertens and Romeu-Gordo 2007;Giesecke and Groβ 2004). xiii Industrial sector was introduced to the models but was eventually dropped as the coefficients were insignificant and when tested had no effect on the model overall.…”

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Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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Citation: Gash, V. (2008). Bridge or trap? To what extent do temporary workers make more transitions to unemployment than to the standard employment contract. European Sociological Review, 24(5), pp. 651-668. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcn027 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. 1984;Blossfeld and Rohwer 1995). This paper establishes higher rates of transition to permanent employment than to unemployment for most temporary workers, though strong between-country differences are found. Permanent

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Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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“…For instance, Burchell et al (2002) find evidence of a strong relationship between job insecurity feelings and stress, while job insecurity has also been linked with constraints on the planning of current and future life activities, more work-family conflict and a deterioration of family life that can lead to greater psychological distress (Burchell, 1999;Gash et al, 2007;Scherer, 2009).…”

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Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being

Dawson

Veliziotis

Hopkins

2014

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This paper is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job satisfaction. Previous research has identified a well-being gap between permanent and temporary employees but has not addressed what individual and contract specific characteristics contribute to this observed difference. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this paper finds that a large proportion of the difference in self-reported well-being between permanent and temporary employees appears to be explained by differences in satisfaction with job security. Other dimensions of job satisfaction are found to be less important. In fact, after controlling for differences in satisfaction with security, our results suggest that temporary employees report higher psychological well-being and life satisfaction. This leads us to believe that an employment contract characterised by a definite duration lowers individual well-being principally through heightened job insecurity. Keywords: Temporary employment, Subjective well-being, Job satisfaction, Job insecurity

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“…Due to the increase of "flexible" employment and other forms of nonstandard contractual conditions, a growing body of literature has emerged that shows that unstable employment is associated with bad health too (Gash et al, 2007;Rodriguez, 2002;Virtanen et al, 2005). Also, psychological factors related to lack of autonomy at work and job dissatisfaction have appeared in several studies as strong determinants of general health or specific diseases (Datta Gupta and Kristensen, 2007;Marmot, 2004;Plaisier et al, 2007).…”

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Disparities in work, risk and health between immigrants and native-born Spaniards

Solé

Díaz-Serrano

Rodrı́guez

2013

Social Science & Medicine

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We analyse the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a permanent disability, controlling for other personal and firm characteristics. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk associated with it. We assume this choice is endogenous, and that it depends on preferences and opportunities in the labour market, both of which may differ between immigrants and natives. To test this hypothesis we apply a bivariate probit model to data for 2006 from the Continuous Sample of Working Lives provided by the Spanish Social Security system, containing records for over a million workers. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability -arising from any cause -by almost 5%. Temporary employment and low-skilled jobs also have a positive impact. Increases in education reduce the likelihood of disability, even after controlling for the impact of education on the choice of (lower) risk. Females have a greater probability of becoming disabled. Migrant status -with differences among regions of origin -significantly affects both disability and the probability of being employed in a high-risk occupation. In spite of immigrants' working conditions being objectively worse, they exhibit a lower probability of becoming disabled than natives because the impact of such conditions on disability is much smaller in their case. Time elapsed since first enrolment in the Social Security system increases the probability of disability in a proportion similar to that of natives, which is consistent with the immigrant assimilation hypothesis. We finally conclude that our theoretical hypothesis that disability and risk are jointly determined is only valid for natives and not valid for immigrants, in the sense that, for them, working conditions are not a matter of choice in terms of health. There is no conflict of interest. *Cover PageResearch highlights  Risk exposure, temporary employment and low-skill jobs have a substantial positive effect on the probability of disability. The presence of immigrants in the three unhealthy working conditions is relatively higher than that of natives. Immigrants are less likely to become disabled; in part because the impact of the work variables is smaller in their case. There are some differences among immigrants by region of origin, calling for caution to avoid over generalisation. AbstractWe analyse the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a permanent disability, controlling for other personal and firm characteristics. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk associated with it. We assume this choice is endogenous, and that it depends on preferences and opportunities in the labour market, both of which may differ between immigrants and natives. To test this hypothesis we apply a bivariate probit mode...

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Are Fixed-Term Jobs Bad for Your Health?: A Comparison of West-Germany and Spain

Cited by 53 publications

References 32 publications

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being

Disparities in work, risk and health between immigrants and native-born Spaniards

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