Temporal Dimensions of Job Quality and Gender: Exploring Differences in the Associations of Working Time and Health between Women and Men.

ABSTRACT: Research shows strong links between working time organization and workers' health outcomes. Working time is also known to be highly gendered, with men and women working to different schedules. This article merges these two strands of research and takes a gender-based approach to investigating the relationship between temporal job quality and self-reported health in Europe. First, the sixth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) is used to establish the relationship between temporal dimensions of job quality and health and well-being outcomes for employed women and men. This is then corroborated using larger samples and more restricted measures of job quality drawn from micro-data from the 2019-2020 EU Labor Force Survey (LFS). The analyses show that good temporal job quality is positive

SUBMITTER: Franklin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9029241 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature