Austerity, precariousness, and the health status of Greek labour market participants: Retrospective cohort analysis of employed and unemployed persons in 2008–2009 and 2010–2011

Barlow, Pepita; Reeves, Aaron; Stuckler, David

doi:10.1057/jphp.2015.25

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“…Epidemiological designs integrating contextual variables are needed to shed some light on the complex theoretical framework linking macro-level factors, precarious employment and health. The current economic recession is not an isolated economic phenomenon but it involves long-term consequences for the labor market, employment and working conditions, as well as workers' health [57]. Thus, more comparative studies are also needed to include and further explore the impact of the economic crisis on the growth of precarious working conditions and its association with mental health, as only 5 of the studies, 2 of which were from Southern Europe, attempted to give an account of this.…”

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Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Utzet¹,

Valero²,

Mosquera³

et al. 2020

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Precarious employment has expanded during the last decades, but there is no full consensus on its definition, and its impact on mental health is not completely understood. The relevance of several micro-and macro-level variables in the association between precarious employment and mental health has not been fully addressed. This review has 2 aims: to identify scientific evidence on the relationship between various dimensions of precarious employment and mental health, and to synthesize the inclusion of a gender-sensitive perspective, context variables, workers' household variables, and the discussion of causal mechanisms underlying the association. The literature was searched in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science and PsycINFO including articles dated 2010-May 2018. A minimum of 2 independent reviewers assessed each article regarding quality and eligibility criteria. The search retrieved 1522 papers, of which 54 (corresponding to 53 studies) met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies analyzing job insecurity, temporariness and multidimensional approaches reported a significant association. Nevertheless, results for working time arrangements and downsizing are inconclusive. Around half of the studies included sex-stratified analyses and formulated contradictory conclusions. Overall, 7 studies considered workers' household situation and only 3 delivered significant results, and 16 described some of the potential pathways. There is evidence of an association between various precarious employment approaches and mental health problems. Further research (preferably longitudinal) should aim to discuss theoretical models explaining the pathways between precarious employment and mental health, including a gender-sensitive perspective, and integrating several levels of individual and contextual variables.

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confidence: 99%

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Utzet¹,

Valero²,

Mosquera³

et al. 2020

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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“…66,79 where the same individuals are followed over time. 60,66,67,71,72,75,81,82,89,97 Individual-level panel data enables controlling for changes in socioeconomic status, and hence eliminate bias due to compositional changes. Comparison of individual health changes before and during the recession is a particularly promising design.…”

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession: A scoping review of the research literature

Heggebø

Tøge²,

Dahl

et al. 2018

Scand J Public Health

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Aims: The so-called ‘Great Recession’ in Europe triggered widespread concerns about population health, as reflected by an upsurge in empirical research on the health impacts of the economic crisis. A growing body of empirical studies has also been devoted to socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession. The aim of the current study is to summarise this health inequality literature by means of a scoping review. Methods: We have performed a scoping review of the research literature (English language) published in the years 2012–2017. Only empirical papers with (a) health status measured on the individual level, (b) information on socioeconomic position (i.e. employment status, educational level, income/wealth, and/or occupational class), and (c) data from European countries in both pre- and post-crisis years were considered relevant. In total, 49 empirical studies fulfilled these inclusion criteria. Results: The empirical findings in the 49 included studies predominantly show that socioeconomic inequalities in health either increased or remained stable from pre- to post-crisis years. Two-thirds (65%) of the studies found evidence of either increasing or partially increasing health inequalities. Thus, people in lower socioeconomic strata fared worse overall in terms of health during the Great Recession, compared to people with higher socioeconomic status. Conclusions: The Great Recession in Europe tends to be followed by increasing socioeconomic inequalities in health. Policymakers should take note of this finding. Widening socioeconomic inequalities in health is a major cause of concern, in particular if health deterioration among ‘vulnerable groups’ is caused by accelerating cumulative disadvantages.

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“…Following existing studies and recommendations in Allison (1990), we measured health status using a dichotomous indicator for whether self-reported health (SRH) status declined between two survey waves (Barlow et al, 2015;Ferrarini, Nelson, & Sjöberg, 2014). SRH is a widely used health measure that is highly correlated with mental and physical health (Jylha, 2009) and even may be a better mortality predictor than some objective measures such as a long-standing illness diagnosis (Ganna and Ingelsson, 2015).…”

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Employment relations and dismissal regulations: Does employment legislation protect the health of workers?

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Sociologists have long acknowledged that being in a precarious labour market position, whether employed or unemployed, can harm peoples' health. However, scholars have yet to fully investigate the possible contextual, institutional determinants of this relationship. Two institutions that were overlooked in previous empirical studies are the regulations that set minimum compensation for dismissal, severance payments, and entitlements to a period of notice before dismissal, notice periods. These institutions may be important for workers' health as they influence the degree of insecurity that workers are exposed to. Here, we test this hypothesis by examining whether longer notice periods and greater severance payments protect the health of labour market participants, both employed and unemployed. We constructed two cohorts of panel data before and during the European recession using data from 22 countries in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (person years = 338,000). We find more generous severance payments significantly reduce the probability that labour market participants, especially the unemployed, will experience declines in self‐reported health, with a slightly weaker relationship for longer notice periods.

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Austerity, precariousness, and the health status of Greek labour market participants: Retrospective cohort analysis of employed and unemployed persons in 2008–2009 and 2010–2011

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Employment precariousness and mental health, understanding a complex reality: a systematic review

Socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession: A scoping review of the research literature

Employment relations and dismissal regulations: Does employment legislation protect the health of workers?

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