Self-Employment, Work–Family Fit and Mental Health Among Female Workers

Tuttle, Robert C.; Garr, Michael S.

doi:10.1007/s10834-009-9154-y

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“…Voydanoff (2005) found that greater autonomy, more learning opportunities, more workplace respect, more meaningful work, and a supportive workplace culture were associated with increased work to family enrichment. Another study found that increased job satisfaction was associated with greater work to family enrichment for women (Tuttle and Garr 2009).…”

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Shift Work and Work to Family Fit: Does Schedule Control Matter?

Tuttle

Garr

2012

J Fam Econ Iss

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We used the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce to investigate the effects of shift work on individuals. We investigated if shift workers would have poorer work to family fit than workers with regular day schedules or flexible schedules. We also investigated if control of work schedule would moderate the possible negative effects of shift work. Results indicate that shift work is associated with increased work to family conflict, especially for women. In addition, the results indicate that women have greater work to family conflict compared to men when workers have more work schedule control. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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Shift Work and Work to Family Fit: Does Schedule Control Matter?

Tuttle

Garr

2012

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…Table 14 looks at occupational characteristics. Column (1) explores heterogeneity between employed and self-employed workers, since the latter may have different characteristics (e.g., more freedom and control over their job; see, e.g., Dellot, 2014, andTuttle andGarr, 2009) and perform jobs that may be less exposed to foreign competition. Consistent with this intuition, the coefficient on the interaction between IS and the dummy for self-employed workers is negative, albeit imprecisely estimated.…”

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Globalization and mental distress

Colantone

Crinò

Ogliari

2019

Journal of International Economics

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We study the effects of import competition on workers' mental distress, using unique longitudinal data on mental health for British residents, coupled with measures of import competition in more than 100 industries over 1995-2007. We find that import competition has a large negative impact on individual mental health. Compared to a worker employed in the industry at the 25th percentile of the import competition distribution, a worker employed in the industry at the 75th percentile would need a yearly monetary compensation of £270 to make up for her greater utility loss. We find import competition to have larger effects on the right tail of the mental distress distribution, thereby increasing inequality in mental health not only across but also within industries. We show that this is consistent with import competition disproportionately hitting specific groups of workers in an industry, such as the youngest or those with a large family, a poor financial condition, a short job tenure, a temporary contract, and a bluecollar or tradable job. Using information on family ties, we find that import competition has negative spillovers to other family members. In particular, women's mental distress increases as a consequence of the import competition faced by their partners. Moreover, paternal import competition leads to reduced investment in child rearing and worsened children's self-esteem and life satisfaction. Finally, we provide evidence that import competition is likely to work through a complex set of channels. These include observable labor market outcomes such as higher likelihood of job displacement and lower wage growth, but also reduced job satisfaction and gloomier expectations about the future.

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“…Other job resources might work out differently for both employment groups. Regarding social support, research shows that the self-employed report lower levels of social support than employed workers because they lack co-worker support (Taris et al 2008 ; Tuttle and Garr 2009 ), although they can compensate by joining professional networks (Koster and De Vries 2011 ). The self-employed also lack supervisor support, which is negatively related to WFC (Matthews et al 2010 ).…”

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“…Among the job demands, long working hours are often mentioned as causing conflict. Working long hours might be incompatible with other life domains and may lead to WFC (Parasuraman and Simmers 2001 ; Tuttle and Garr 2009 ). However, the self-employed report more “passion for work” and higher work engagement (Gorgievski et al 2010 ).…”

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Work–Family Conflict Among Employees and the Self-Employed Across Europe

2015

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This article examines the level of work–family conflict of self-employed persons, a changing but neglected group in work–life research, compared to employees in Europe. Differences between the two groups are explained by looking at job demands and resources. The inclusion of work–family state support makes it possible to examine differences between countries. Multilevel analysis has been applied to data from the European Social Survey (ESS 2010). The results show that job demands and resources operate differently for employees and the self-employed. The relationship between employment type and WFC is mediated mainly by job demands such as working hours, working at short notice, job insecurity and supervisory work. The results also reveal variation across countries that cannot be explained by state support, signalling the need for a more complete understanding of WFC from a cross-national perspective.

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Self-Employment, Work–Family Fit and Mental Health Among Female Workers

Abstract: Mental health, Self-employment, Work–family fit,

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

Shift Work and Work to Family Fit: Does Schedule Control Matter?

Shift Work and Work to Family Fit: Does Schedule Control Matter?

Globalization and mental distress

Work–Family Conflict Among Employees and the Self-Employed Across Europe

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