The Relation Between Precarious Employment Arrangements and Social Precarity: Findings from the PREMIS Study in Stockholm, Sweden

Matilla-Santander, Núria; Jönsson, Johanna; Kreshpaj, Bertina; Orellana, Cecilia; Benach, Joan; Badarin, Kathryn; Burström, Bo; Vives, Alejandra; Kjellberg, Katarina; Strömdahl, Susanne; Johansson, Gun; Östergren, Per-Olof; Bodin, Theo

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“…The Irish state has been reluctant to govern home care services; however, that is not to say that regulation alone would guarantee better protection and conditions for care workers. The role of state regulation can be contradictory in that it can both improve worker protections and create precarity depending on context and the type of regulation that is implemented (Matilla-Santander et al ., 2022; Siegmann and Schiphorst, 2016).…”

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Home care workers' views of employment conditions: private for-profit vs public and non-profit providers in Ireland

O'Neill

Mercille

Edwards

2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare home care workers' views of their employment conditions by provider type – private for-profit vs public and non-profit – using the case study of Ireland.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was distributed to care workers (n = 350) employed by private for-profit, public and non-profit home care providers in Ireland. Returned questionnaires were analysed statistically in R using chi-squared tests to systematically compare key aspects of employment conditions.FindingsAnalysis shows that conditions are perceived to be significantly worse for those employed by private for-profit providers (and to a lesser extent non-profit organisations) compared to the public provider. There are wide disparities between public and private sector conditions in terms of contracts, pensions, unsocial hours pay and travel time allowances. The main area of convergence is in relation to employer support, where although the public sector performed better, the difference between the three provider types is smaller.Originality/valueRelatively little research compares working conditions in private for-profit providers vs public and non-profit providers in Ireland and other countries. The findings can be understood in the context of marketisation reforms and may partly be explained by a lack of regulation in Ireland's home care sector and low unionisation rates amongst care workers employed by private for-profit providers.

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Home care workers' views of employment conditions: private for-profit vs public and non-profit providers in Ireland

O'Neill

Mercille

Edwards

2023

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“…Those in precarious employment are thus deprived of both the ‘temporal and economic resources needed to plan their lives’ (McGann et al, 2016: 774). Quantitative research has more recently begun to focus on the negative wellbeing impacts of temporal uncertainty (Felstead et al, 2020; Lee and Kawachi, 2021) and to explore the concept of ‘social precarity’, with Matilla-Santander et al (2021) demonstrating an association between precarious employment and inability to participate in social activities.…”

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How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies

Irvine

Rose

2022

Work, Employment and Society

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This article offers a scoping review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research on the relationship between precarious employment and mental health. Systematic searches of primary qualitative research in western economies, focused on insecure contracts and a broad conceptualisation of mental health, identified 32 studies. Thematic synthesis revealed four core experiences of precarious employment: financial instability, temporal uncertainty, marginal status and employment insecurity, each connected with multiple, interrelated experiences/responses at four thematic levels: economic, socio-relational, behavioural and physical, leading to negative mental health effects. Reported mental health outcomes could be predominantly understood as reductions in ‘positive mental health’. Findings are theoretically located in models of work-family conflict and latent deprivation; insecure work constrains access to benefits of time structure, social contacts, social purposes, status and identity, which correlate with psychological wellbeing. Frequently failing also to provide the manifest (financial) benefits of work, insecure employment poses mental health risks on both fronts.

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“…Future research might also seek to include the household as an additional unit of analysis when investigating work-related mental health. This inclusion would be useful as adverse employment arrangements can have adverse spill-over consequences for individuals' lives that extend beyond the individual and beyond the workplace (Della Porta et al 2015;Matilla-Santander et al 2022;Quinlan and Bohle 2015).…”

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Employment trajectories and mental health-related disability in Belgium

Balogh

Gadeyne

Jönsson

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Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Objectives An individual’s quality of employment over time has been highlighted as a potential determinant of mental health. With mental ill-health greatly contributing to work incapacities and disabilities in Belgium, the present study aims to explore whether mental health, as indicated by registered mental health-related disability, is structured along the lines of employment quality, whereby employment quality is assessed over time as part of individuals’ labour market trajectories. Methods Using administrative data from the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security over 16 quarters between 2006 and 2009, transitions between waged jobs of varying quality (based on dimensions of income, working time, employment stability and multiple jobholding), self-employment, and unemployment are considered among individuals in the labour force aged 30–40 at baseline (n = 41,065 women and 45,667 men). With Multichannel Sequence Analysis and clustering, we constructed ideal types of employment trajectories. Fitting Cox regressions, we then evaluated individuals’ hazard of experiencing a disability from a mental disorder between 2010 and 2016. Results Our analysis highlights various gender-specific trajectories. Among both genders, individuals exposed to near-constant unemployment over the initial 4 years showed the highest hazard of subsequent mental health-related disability compared to a group characterised by stable full-time employment, single jobholding, and above-median income. Trajectories involving a higher probability of subsidised and non-standard employment and (potential) spells of unemployment and lower relative income were also strong predictors of cause-specific disabilities. Health selection and confounding might, however, be contributing factors. Conclusions Our study shows a gradient of mental disorders resulting in a disability along trajectory types. Our findings highlight the predictive power of labour market trajectories and their employment quality for subsequent mental disorder-related disability. Future research should examine the mechanisms, including selection effects in this association.

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The Relation Between Precarious Employment Arrangements and Social Precarity: Findings from the PREMIS Study in Stockholm, Sweden

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

Home care workers' views of employment conditions: private for-profit vs public and non-profit providers in Ireland

Home care workers' views of employment conditions: private for-profit vs public and non-profit providers in Ireland

How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies

Employment trajectories and mental health-related disability in Belgium

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