Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark

Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo

doi:10.1002/hec.3580

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“…Finally, 7 (13.0%) studies considered the role of social and family support for workers in the association. In 2 cases [40,41], it was introduced as a confounder variable in the regression models and no further explanation was given. In 2 studies [42,43], social support variables were found to have no impact on the association, while the other 3 studies demonstrated that social and family support as well as the household situation decreased the impact of precarious employment (1 study, [19]), income and employment quality [44] and restructuring processes (1 study, [45]) on mental health.…”

Section: Causal Pathwaysmentioning

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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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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Section: Causal Pathwaysmentioning

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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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“…Whereas job insecurity represents concerns about involuntarily losing one’s current job, employment insecurity represents the perceived likelihood of not finding comparable new employment in the event of job loss (e.g., Y. Cheng, Huang, Li, & Hsu, 2011; Chung & van Oorschot, 2011; Cottini & Ghinetti, 2018; European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2008; Kuhnert & Vance, 1992; Muffels & Wilthagen, 2013). 2 Although models of job insecurity (Probst, 2005; Shoss, 2017) have not directly addressed the potential for macroeconomic events to increase employment insecurity, such an association is consistent with Pearlin and Bierman’s (2013) model of stress.…”

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“…Silla, De Cuyper, Gracia, Peiro, and De Witte (2009) found that job insecurity was positively related to psychological distress and life dissatisfaction, but the associations involving employment insecurity were not significant. Cottini and Ghinetti (2018) used panel data and found that job insecurity and employment insecurity were simultaneously negatively associated with mental health, but only employment insecurity was negatively related to reported energy/vitality. Based on this discussion and the limited data on the simultaneous associations of job and employment insecurity to mental health, and no research on physical health, the following hypotheses are proposed:…”

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What happened to the employed during the Great Recession? A U.S. population study of net change in employee insecurity, health, and organizational commitment

Frone

2018

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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This study explored the effects of the Great Recession on U.S. workers who remain employed. The first goal was to assess net population change in job and employment insecurity, physical and mental health, and affective organizational commitment. The second goal was to explore job and employment insecurity as parallel mediators of the associations between the Great Recession and the health and affective organizational commitment outcomes. Data came from two national surveys of U.S. workers that occurred before the recession (N = 2,354) and during the recession (N = 2,322). The results show that the recession was associated with a net increase in both job and employment insecurity, though the increase in employment insecurity was 3.4 times larger than the increase in job insecurity. The recession was associated with a net decrease in physical and mental health and affective organizational commitment. Finally, job and employment insecurity partially mediated the association of the recession with physical health and fully mediated its association with mental health. Job insecurity, but not employment insecurity, partially mediated the association of the recession with affective organizational commitment. The results underscore the importance of research that furthers our understanding of how macroeconomic events affect those who remain employed, and that takes a broad view of employee insecurity regarding continuity of employment.

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“…Previous research indicates that perceived job insecurity is a stressor, which is therefore positively correlated to poorer mental well-being, in general, and anxiety, in particular (Simmons and Swanberg, 2008;Burgard et al, 2009;Milner et al, 2016;Cottini and Ghinetti, 2018;Wood and Burchell, 2018). For instance, Simmons and Swanberg (2008) found that job insecurity is the single most significant correlate of depressive symptoms for working poor employees.…”

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“…Economic and political variables (such as labor market regulation, employment protection legislation, welfare policies, unemployment rate) as well as prevailing cultural frameworks could predict diversity in health-related outcomes of the experience of job insecurity (Erlinghagen, 2008;László et al, 2010;Balz, 2017). Nonetheless, most research in the field has so far investigated single countries, such as UK (Ferrie et al, 2005), Germany (Reichert and Tauchmann, 2017), Spain (Menéndez-Espina et al, 2019), Finland (Griep et al, 2016), Denmark (Cottini and Ghinetti, 2018), the United States (Simmons and Swanberg, 2008), Japan (Kachi et al, 2018), Australia (Green, 2011), and Canada (Wang et al, 2008). Even the studies of Buffel et al (2015) and Caroli and Godard (2016), whose analyses drew on large and international datasets, have not provide crosscountry comparative analyses.…”

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confidence: 99%

Perceived Job Insecurity and Anxiety. A Multilevel Analysis on Male and Female Workers in European Countries

Bracci

Riva

2020

Front. Sociol.

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A growing body of evidence has been produced on the adverse effects of job insecurity on health and well-being. Current research in the field conveys a few concerns, some of which are related to gender and cross-national differences in the experience of job insecurity. In order to fill these gaps this study draws on three waves (2005, 2010, 2015) of the European Working Conditions Survey and investigates, using mixed-effects logistic regression: (i) the relationship between anxiety and perceived job insecurity; and whether such relationship: (ii) is different for men and women; (iii) and varies across European countries. Results indicate that male and female workers perceiving the risk of involuntary job loss have similar odds of reporting anxiety. Furthermore, the variance in slopes across countries, relative to the general trend, is significant but modest, too, thus suggesting that the relationship under investigation is fairly similar across European countries. Implications of the findings for future research and practice are discussed.

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Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark

Cited by 32 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

What happened to the employed during the Great Recession? A U.S. population study of net change in employee insecurity, health, and organizational commitment

Perceived Job Insecurity and Anxiety. A Multilevel Analysis on Male and Female Workers in European Countries

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