The impact of precarious employment on the health and wellbeing of UK immigrants: a systematic review

Muoka, Michael Obinna; Lhussier, Monique

doi:10.1332/175982720x15971673526089

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“…Therefore, further studies need to extend and address the theoretical pathways between policies, labor market conditions, and the association between precarious employment and health. Moreover, theoretical debates should explore how to include factors such as life course, 136 migration, 137 or gender, 138 which play an important role when explaining the extent and form of differences in health by precarious employment. This requires an interdisciplinary work between scholars from occupational health research, medical sociology, public health, politics, psychology, and epidemiology.…”

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The Emergence of Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Health in Europe and the Relevance of Contextual Factors: A Critical Research Synthesis

Pförtner

2022

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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Precarious employment as a determinant of health remains on the rise in Europe, in contrast to the European Pillar of Social Rights. Research in epidemiology, public health, and occupational health research has debated the health impacts of precarious employment. A number of studies have concluded that precarious employment contributes to poor health. More recent research has focused on the contextual influences of the association between precarious employment and health. Accordingly, we argue that the welfare state and the specific institutional arrangements on the national level determine and mediate the extent of the association between precarious employment and health. This research synthesis: (a) debates explanations for the rise of precarious employment in Europe, (b) illustrates how precarious employment has risen in Europe since the 1980s, (c) indicates empirical findings of the association between precarious employment and health in Europe, (d) discusses how research explains between-country differences of the association between precarious employment and health, and (e) presents empirical findings on the contextual determinants of the association between precarious employment and health in Europe.

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The Emergence of Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Health in Europe and the Relevance of Contextual Factors: A Critical Research Synthesis

Pförtner

2022

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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“…Although new perpetual foreign worker admittance is now quite a few, transitory foreign worker employment looks to be getting more common; certain nations are implementing governmental steps to support it. The temporary employment of foreign workers adds versatility to the labor market and helps to alleviate sectoral labor scarcity in host countries (Muoka & Lhussier, 2020;Urbański, 2021). The latter is especially true in the latest technological segments, where numerous countries are experiencing a shortage of qualified and highly competent laborers.…”

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Foreign employment in enterprises – examples from countries with different cultures

Urbański¹,

AL-Tkhayneh²,

Shamugia³

2022

JESI

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Migration has been a topic discussed across international boundaries especially the mobility of international workers. The purpose of this research was to conduct a comparative analysis of foreign employment in enterprises and firms operating in UK, Poland and UAE. The study was driven by the increasing rate of migration whether to look for better employment and life opportunities or simply a change of scenery abroad. The analysis was conducted using primary data collected from managers of the companies operating in these countries. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and comparative analysis technique of chi-square tests for independence. The findings indicated that there was a significant relationship between the country in which the companies operated and the age of foreign employees, type of contract, a common type of jobs foreigners are employed, and the reason why the company decided to employ foreigners. The study concluded that there is a similar trend in the increase in the number of foreign employees working in the three countriesthe UK, Poland and UAE. The largest age group of foreign employees was 25-35 years. The highest type of contract was fixedterm full-time employment consented by 165 companies. The most common job was unskilled manual labour.

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“…A Maltese study found that half of the immigrant respondents indicated that their health or safety is at risk because of their work (Debono and Vassallo, 2019). In addition, a review study in the UK found positive associations between adverse working conditions and deteriorated physical and mental health status including injury, anxiety and depression (Muoka and Lhussier, 2020).…”

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Adverse working conditions and immigrants’ physical health and depression outcomes: a longitudinal study in Greece

Drydakis

2021

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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The impact of precarious employment on the health and wellbeing of UK immigrants: a systematic review

Cited by 11 publications

References 53 publications

The Emergence of Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Health in Europe and the Relevance of Contextual Factors: A Critical Research Synthesis

The Emergence of Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Health in Europe and the Relevance of Contextual Factors: A Critical Research Synthesis

Foreign employment in enterprises – examples from countries with different cultures

Adverse working conditions and immigrants’ physical health and depression outcomes: a longitudinal study in Greece

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