Precarious work on the rise [PDF]
BMC Public HealthPrecarious employment (PE) is non-standard employment with uncertain and unstable contract duration, low wages, and limited labour protections and rights.
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Precarious work and heath: Do occupation- and state-specific unemployment rates matter for women and for men? [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Precarious work has the potential to undermine workers’ health and well-being, and linkages between precarious work and health may depend on contextual measures of unemployment.
Rachel Donnelly
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Perceived precarious life: a SEM model for re-dimensioning of precarious work and its impact on mental health [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionPrecarious work is one of the most studied concepts related to work, and its effects have been analyzed in relation to variables such as mental health and wellbeing.
José Antonio Llosa +3 more
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Parents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Many working parents in the United States are employed in jobs that expose them to challenging working conditions, including low wages, limited benefits, and unstable and unpredictable work schedules.
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Precarious Work in the Nordics
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 In recent years, we have seen a growing body of literature with a strong focus on labour market inequalities. In the Anglo-Saxon literature, concepts such as the working poor and bad jobs have been applied to jobs in, for example, the US to describe jobs
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Effects of precarious work on symptomatology of anxiety and depression in Chilean workers, a cross sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Precarious work is a broad definition for non-standard employment, often including unstable and insecure positions where workers permanently experience uncertainty; these types of jobs are growing steadily around the planet.
Gonzalo Lopez +3 more
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The working disadvantaged: the role of age, job tenure and disability in precarious work [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Precarious work is an increasingly common characteristic of industrialized labor markets that can widen health inequities, especially among disadvantaged workforce segments. Study objectives are to compare precarious employment in workers with
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Precarious work and methodological challenges to study hard-to-reach populations [PDF]
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To describe the methodological challenges and strategies of a web survey on the working conditions and health among delivery workers. METHODS The study population consisted of Brazilian delivery workers operating in the national territory ...
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Supporting workers with mental health problems at work: challenges and avenues
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 Mental health problems in the workforce present a major public and occupational health challenge and come with significant costs for the individuals, families, employers and society at large.
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Precarious Work in Turkish Basketball Leagues
Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2022 Precarious work is not limited to certain professions or market sectors but involves many fields of work. One such area is a professional sport that has become an economic field of work on a global scale.
Ahmet Nusret Baştuğ
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