Is precarious employment damaging to self-rated health? Results of propensity score matching methods, using longitudinal data in South Korea

Kim, Myoung-Hee; Kim, Chang-Yup; Park, Jin-Kyung; Kawachi, Ichiro

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.051

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“…QuesnelVallee et al, 2010) and Eastern Asia (Kim et al, 2008). Negative effects have been found in Europe for job satisfaction (Benach et al, 2004;Benavides et al, 2000) and life satisfaction (Scherer, 2009), even if contradictory results do exist (Bardasi and Francesconi, 2004).…”

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“…Consequences on physical health and chronic diseases are not well established, while someone finds differences between temporary and permanent employment , someone else does not (Benach et al, 2004;Virtanen et al, 2003). Overall, a detrimental effect of precarious employment on self-rated health has been observed in many high-middle-income countries (Caroli and Godard, 2013;Ehlert and Schaffner, 2011;Kim et al, 2008), even if this relationship has not the same magnitude or significance everywhere (Bardasi and Francesconi, 2004;Gash et al, 2007;Laszlo et al, 2010;Rodriguez, 2002).…”

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“…These more intermittent employment histories, from one side, increase the risk of unemployment and, from the other side, increase job insecurity experienced by the worker. Moreover, temporary workers tend to be less satisfied with their jobs than permanent workers, and this dissatisfaction is especially related to job insecurity (Kim et al, 2008). Finally, temporary employment, like unemployment, may not completely fulfill functions guaranteed by employment, i.e.…”

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“…The denominator of W C (t) is the probability, obtained through a logistic regression model, of having a given type of contract in t, conditional on individual covariates (during time and at baseline, L and B respectively), and conditional on one's own previous history of permanent-temporary contracts, C. The numerator of W C (t) is used to "stabilize" the weights and prevent large standard errors and variance Robins et al, 2000;Hernan and Robins, 2013). These probabilities of treatment, namely propensityscores, are estimated including all possible covariates known to be associated with employment condition and health, regardless of their statistical significance (Caliendo and Kopeinig, 2005;Oakes and Johnson, 2006;Kim et al, 2008).…”

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“…Only a few attempts have been made to assess statistical causality. Kim et al (2008) and Quesnel-Vallee et al (2010) applied propensity-score methods respectively to South Korea and U.S. data, while Caroli and Godard (2013), Cottini and Lucifora (2010) and Ehlert and Schaffner (2011) analyzed the relationship between work and health for a large group of European countries using fixed effects and bivariate probit models. All these authors proved the existence of a health gap in favor of permanent employees.…”

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Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

Pirani

Salvini

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tWorking conditions have changed dramatically over recent decades in all the countries of European Union: permanent full-time employment characterized by job security and a stable salary is replaced more and more by temporary work, apprenticeship contracts, casual jobs and part-time work. The consequences of these changes on the general well-being of workers and their health represent an increasingly important path of inquiry.We add to the debate by answering the question: are Italian workers on temporary contracts more likely to suffer from poor health than those with permanent jobs? Our analysis is based on a sample of men and women aged 16e64 coming from the Italian longitudinal survey 2007e2010 of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. We use the method of inverse-probability-oftreatment weights to estimate the causal effect of temporary work on self-rated health, controlling for selection effects.Our major findings can be summarized as follows: firstly, we show a negative association between temporary employment and health that results from a statistical causal effect in the work-to-health direction, and does not trivially derive from a selection of healthier individuals in the group of people who find permanent jobs (selection effect). Secondly, we find that temporary employment becomes particularly negative for the individual's health when it is prolonged over time. Thirdly, whereas temporary employment does not entail significant adverse consequences for men, the link between temporary employment and health is strongly harmful for Italian women.

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Section: Previous Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pathways Between Temporary Work and Healthmentioning

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Section: Inverse-probability-of-treatment Weightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

Pirani

Salvini

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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History of Low Hourly Wage and All-Cause Mortality Among Middle-aged Workers

Kezios

Calónico

et al. 2023

JAMA

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ImportanceEarning a low wage is an increasingly recognized public health concern, yet little research exists on the long-term health consequences of sustained low-wage earning.ObjectiveTo examine the association of sustained low-wage earning and mortality in a sample of workers with hourly wage reported biennially during peak midlife earning years.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis longitudinal study included 4002 US participants, aged 50 years or older, from 2 subcohorts of the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2018) who worked for pay and reported earning hourly wages at 3 or more time points during a 12-year period during their midlife (1992-2004 or 1998-2010). Outcome follow-up occurred from the end of the respective exposure periods until 2018.ExposuresLow-wage—less than the hourly wage for full-time, full-year work at the federal poverty line—earning history was categorized as never earning a low wage, intermittently earning a low wage, and sustained earning a low wage.Main Outcomes and MeasuresCox proportional hazards and additive hazards regression models sequentially adjusted for sociodemographics, and economic and health covariates were used to estimate associations between low-wage history and all-cause mortality. We examined interaction with sex or employment stability on multiplicative and additive scales.ResultsOf the 4002 workers (aged 50-57 years at the beginning of exposure period and 61-69 years at the end), 1854 (46.3%) were female; 718 (17.9%) experienced employment instability; 366 (9.1%) had a history of sustained low-wage earning; 1288 (32.2%) had intermittent low-wage earning periods; and 2348 (58.7%) had never earned a low wage. In unadjusted analyses, those who had never earned low wages experienced 199 deaths per 10 000 person-years, those with intermittent low wages, 208 deaths per 10 000 person-years, and those with sustained low wages, 275 deaths per 10 000 person-years. In models adjusted for key sociodemographic variables, sustained low-wage earning was associated with mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35; 95% CI, 1.07-1.71) and excess deaths (66; 95% CI, 6.6-125); these findings were attenuated with additional adjustments for economic and health covariates. Significant excess death and elevated mortality risk were observed for workers with sustained low-wage exposure and employment fluctuations (eg, for sustained low-wage × employment fluctuated, HR, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.35-3.53; for sustained low-wage × stable employment, HR, 1.17; 95% CI, 0.89,-1.54; P for interaction = .003).Conclusions and RelevanceSustained low-wage earning may be associated with elevated mortality risk and excess deaths, especially when experienced alongside unstable employment. If causal, our findings suggest that social and economic policies that improve the financial standing of low-wage workers (eg, minimum wage laws) could improve mortality outcomes.

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Depressive symptoms and atypical jobs in France, from the 2003 Decennial health survey

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Cohidon

Goldberg

et al. 2009

American J Industrial Med

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Is precarious employment damaging to self-rated health? Results of propensity score matching methods, using longitudinal data in South Korea

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Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

History of Low Hourly Wage and All-Cause Mortality Among Middle-aged Workers

Depressive symptoms and atypical jobs in France, from the 2003 Decennial health survey

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