The impact of employment protection on health: Evidence from fixed-term contract workers in South Korea

Park, WooRam; Baek, Jisun

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.002

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“…Employment regulations have been shown to be effective in reducing health risks in other domains than CW ( Park and Baek, 2019 ). Regulations for CW stand in the tension between keeping the level of flexibility CW offers and crowdworkers want, but at the same time protecting crowdworkers from risks on the one side, and economic considerations on the other side that require CW to provide quick, easy, and cheap task completion.…”

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Flexible, Self-Determined… and Unhealthy? An Empirical Study on Somatic Health Among Crowdworkers

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Crowdwork is a new form of digitally enabled work in which organizations assign tasks to an anonymous group of workers via platform intermediaries. For crowdworkers, crowdwork offers both opportunities and risks. On the one side, crowdworkers enjoy high flexibility on when, where, and how much to work. On the other side, risks comparable to other forms of atypical employment arise: no labor regulation, unstable income, and uncertainty about whether enough tasks are available. Regulation of working hours lies within the crowdworkers’ own authority. Also, crowdwork in industrialized nations is often conducted during leisure times as a side-job to some other kind of employment. In accordance with Conservation of Resources Theory, we state that when leisure time gets used up with crowdwork, regeneration cannot occur and health declines. On a sample of N=748 German crowdworkers recruited from four different platform types, we analyzed whether participation in crowdwork is linked to increased somatic symptoms compared to regularly employed personnel. We found that crowdworkers show significantly increased somatic symptoms as compared to a German norm sample, that are stable across different kinds of tasks and platforms, gender, and age groups, and that is statistically due to the extent of participation in crowdwork. Specifically, we found that total work hours per week were not associated with an increase in somatic symptoms, but we did find associations with strain-based work–family conflict and the primary motivation to do crowdwork being to earn money. Consequences for research and labor regulations are discussed.

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“…Curiously, although people losing their jobs in Salavan increased their preferences towards public and private primary care, they also became relatively less likely to actually access these out-of-pocket and often distant health services (contrary to Chiang Rai, where only hospitals were comparatively less likely to be accessed). where to improve health and nutrition outcomes (Benach et al, 2014;Nair et al, 2013;Park & Baek, 2019;Raifman et al, 2021;Rocco et al, 2018;Vandoros et al, 2019). Also, marketable non-health solutions may have such consequences.…”

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“…With respect to the sixth premise, this lends support to the notion that contextual interventions may affect health behaviours of interest for the attainment of SDG3. Such interventions could for instance pertain to increasing job security through employment guarantee schemes or unemployment insurance, both of which have been demonstrated elsewhere to improve health and nutrition outcomes (Benach et al, 2014; Nair et al, 2013; Park & Baek, 2019; Raifman et al, 2021; Rocco et al, 2018; Vandoros et al, 2019). Also, marketable non‐health solutions may have such consequences.…”

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Aligning global health policy and research with sustainable development: A strategic market approach

Haenssgen

2023

Sustainable Development

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Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3: Health and Well‐Being) faces a dual challenge of diminishing returns of established intervention designs, and a threat to future gains from complex inter‐connected global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance and global biodiversity loss. The growing movement of context‐sensitive approaches could help realise yet untapped potential for intervention designs, but contemporary global health policy and research still remain dominated by a model of individual market style choices. This paper therefore aims to support the development of global health planning processes that are more grounded and integrative across the SDGs. Reiterating calls for disruptive policy change is unlikely to impact the modus operandi of global health policy and research. This paper therefore builds on a logic that already finds widespread and intuitive application in their underlying planning processes: ‘the market’. However, it challenges the dominant supply‐and‐demand approach to healthcare markets and redefines them from a strategic marketing perspective. Translated to the interface of populations and health systems, the strategic market is a site for solving problems that are defined by people with multidimensional health needs. This framework offers four guiding questions to define the strategic market and six premises as a simple intellectual starting point and checklist for more grounded and inter‐sectorial action across the SDGs. The analysis of data from one of the largest behavioural survey data sets, covering 6683 villagers across China, India, Lao PDR and Thailand, demonstrates the relevance of the premises empirically.

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Trajectories of Labor Market Inequalities and Health Among Employees in Korea: Multichannel Sequence Analysis

Kang

2021

Soc Indic Res

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The impact of employment protection on health: Evidence from fixed-term contract workers in South Korea

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Flexible, Self-Determined… and Unhealthy? An Empirical Study on Somatic Health Among Crowdworkers

Flexible, Self-Determined… and Unhealthy? An Empirical Study on Somatic Health Among Crowdworkers

Aligning global health policy and research with sustainable development: A strategic market approach

Trajectories of Labor Market Inequalities and Health Among Employees in Korea: Multichannel Sequence Analysis

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