Time projections: Youth and precarious employment

Carmo, Renato Miguel do; Cantante, Frederico; Alves, Nuno de Almeida

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“…The estimated prevalence rates of temporary employment in OECD countries range between 1.1% and 28.8% (mean rate in 2018: 11.7%) [3]. Considering the associated poor job security, low remuneration, limited entitlements and protections, and low socioeconomic benefits involved in its nature [4], precarious employment can have a detrimental effect on health. Epidemiological studies on precarious and flexible employment have highlighted its adverse effects on both physical (e.g., increased episodes of illness, longstanding illness, increased cardiovascular risk, worsening of general health, and morbidity) and mental health (e.g., increased prevalence of depression, new-onset severe depression, anxiety, burnout, and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) [5,6,7,8].…”

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Patterns of Change in Employment Status and Their Association with Self-Rated Health, Perceived Daily Stress, and Sleep among Young Adults in South Korea

Lee¹,

Park²

2019

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We identified distinct trajectories of temporal changes in employment status and investigated their association with self-rated health, perceived stress, and sleep. Data pertaining to 1228 respondents (age: 17–31 years) were extracted from the Korea Youth Panel (YP2007) survey (3rd–9th wave) datasets. Participants were either paid employees (permanent or precarious) or currently unemployed but seeking a job at baseline. Latent class growth analyses were employed to extract different classes based on the annual change in employment status (permanent/precarious/unemployed). Logistic regression analyses were performed using extracted classes as predictor variables and health-related variables at the final time-point as outcome variables. Five trajectories of employment status change were identified: stability sustained; gradually deteriorated; swiftly alleviated; gradually alleviated; instability sustained. Compared with the stability sustained group, the gradually deteriorated and gradually alleviated groups showed higher odds of perceived stress. The gradually deteriorated, instability sustained, and gradually alleviated groups showed significantly higher odds of shorter sleep than the stabilized group. We highlight the adverse health effects of prolonged unstable employment and the need for interventions to mitigate these effects.

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Patterns of Change in Employment Status and Their Association with Self-Rated Health, Perceived Daily Stress, and Sleep among Young Adults in South Korea

Lee¹,

Park²

2019

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“…Thus, precarious employment gives rise to great vulnerability to social contingencies or risks that compromise individuals' ability to ensure their social independence by themselves, leaving the most precarious population at the mercy of imponderables that can degrade their social status (81). As a result, precarious employment hinders the capacity for agency and the self-perception of control over the future, limiting, and restricting temporary horizon-building (83). Precarious employment spreads uncertainty, unpredictability and the experiential condition of a limited, precarious existence in the present (70,84,85), even among those who do not suffer precarious employment, but may perceive it as a threat (84).…”

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Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

Bolíbar

Belvis

Jódar

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the pathways and mechanisms to explain such a relationship are not well-understood. This project aims to fill this gap from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the social and biomedical standpoints to comprehensively address the complex web of consequences of precarious employment and its effects on workers' stress, health and well-being, including health inequalities. The project objectives are: (1) to analyze the association between multidimensional precarious employment and chronic stress among salaried workers in Barcelona, measured both subjectively and using biological indicators; (2) to improve our understanding of the pathways and mechanisms linking precarious employment with stress, health and well-being; and (3) to analyze health inequalities by gender, social class and place of origin for the first two objectives. The study follows a sequential mixed design. First, secondary data from the 2017 Survey on Workers and the Unemployed of Barcelona is analyzed (N = 1,264), yielding a social map of precarious employment in Barcelona that allows the contextualization of the scope and characteristics of this phenomenon. Drawing on these results, a second survey on a smaller sample (N = 255) on precarious employment, social precariousness and stress is envisaged. This study population is also asked to provide a hair sample to have their levels of cortisol and its related components, biomarkers of chronic stress, analyzed. Third, a sub-sample of the latter survey (n = 25) is selected to perform qualitative semi-structured interviews. This allows going into greater depth into how and why the experience of uncertainty, the precarization of living conditions, and the degradation of working conditions go hand-in-hand with precarious employment and have an impact on stress, as well as to explore the potential role of social support networks in mitigating these effects.

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“…Other youth transitions were also affected: trajectories to adulthood were prolonged, phenomena of reversibility increased and youth conditions became increasingly vulnerable (Serracant, 2015). That said, job insecurity is not limited to mercantile roles; it crosses over into other areas of life (Batchelor et al, 2020; Miguel Carmo et al, 2014) and also affects the creation of expectations and plans for the future (Leccardi, 2012). Through their analysis of trajectories during the crisis, Verd et al (2019) show how young people, and especially those with the most vulnerable profiles, are trapped in a cycle of unskilled roles and periods of unemployment with the result that this perpetuates the economic and social division of the population (Fenton & Dermott, 2006).…”

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The Social and Solidarity Economy: An Opportunity for Young Women’s Work Transitions

Soler‐i‐Martí

Trepat²,

Oliveras

et al. 2021

YOUNG

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This article analyses to what extent the social and solidarity economy (SSE), the aim of which is to prioritize people’s needs and well-being, can offer young people education-to-work transitions conditions and opportunities which are different from those in the conventional economy. The very nature of SSE means that it is especially suitable for challenging gender inequality and proves to be exceptionally useful for testing feminist economics. Against a backdrop of economic crisis, SSE has shown greater resilience when compared to other sectors, although it is still not widespread. To examine how SSE can improve young women’s experiences and labour trajectories, this article analyses working conditions, job satisfaction and gender roles in school-to-work transitions of young women in SSE in Catalonia. Results show that the collective and value-driven nature of SSE entails a specific awareness and commitment that empower young women’s transitions experiences and expectations.

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Time projections: Youth and precarious employment

Cited by 44 publications

References 21 publications

Patterns of Change in Employment Status and Their Association with Self-Rated Health, Perceived Daily Stress, and Sleep among Young Adults in South Korea

Patterns of Change in Employment Status and Their Association with Self-Rated Health, Perceived Daily Stress, and Sleep among Young Adults in South Korea

Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

The Social and Solidarity Economy: An Opportunity for Young Women’s Work Transitions

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