Employment trajectories and mental health-related disability in Belgium.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

An individual's quality of employment over time has been highlighted as a potential determinant of mental health. With mental ill-health greatly contributing to work incapacities and disabilities in Belgium, the present study aims to explore whether mental health, as indicated by registered mental health-related disability, is structured along the lines of employment quality, whereby employment quality is assessed over time as part of individuals' labour market trajectories.

Methods

Using administrative data from the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security over 16 quarters between 2006 and 2009, transitions between waged jobs of varying quality (based on dimensions of income, working time, employment stability and multiple jobholding), self-employment, and une

SUBMITTER: Balogh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905181 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature