Precarious work and heath: Do occupation- and state-specific unemployment rates matter for women and for men?

ABSTRACT: 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. The present study uses data from the Current Population Survey (CPS; 2001-2019) to examine whether several characteristics of precarious work are associated with self-rated health, with attention to differences in these associations by occupation- and state-specific unemployment rates. Findings indicate that experiences of unemployment, part-time work, and poor work quality (limited social benefits and low wages) are associated with worse self-rated health for working women and men. Moreover, associations between some measures of precarious work and health are weaker at higher levels of occupation- and state-specif

SUBMITTER: Donnelly R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8608613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature