Poor-quality employment and health: How a welfare regime typology with a gender lens Illuminates a different work-health relationship for men and women.

ABSTRACT: In the growing literature on employment quality and health, poor quality of employment is generally associated with poor health. However, this association may not be uniform for men and women if unpaid caregiving labor is taken into consideration. How paid and unpaid labor is performed varies across societies because of differences in both state support for families and labor market penalties for women. Applying a gender lens to a welfare regime typology, we investigated the relationship between poor-quality employment and poor health for men and women. For each of five welfare regime types, we hypothesized if men or women would be more strongly affected by poor-quality employment based on the regime's family support policies and labor practices. Our analysis of 18 countries using the 2015

SUBMITTER: Fujishiro K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671289 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature