Does precarious employment ruin youth health and marriage? Evidence from Egypt using longitudinal data
| Autor: | Ahmed Shoukry Rashad, Mesbah Fathy Sharaf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economics and Econometrics
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population health Development Mental health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Well-being Happiness Harassment Precarious work Demographic economics 030212 general & internal medicine Salary 050207 economics Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Development Issues. 19:391-406 |
| ISSN: | 1446-8956 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ijdi-01-2020-0005 |
| Popis: | Purpose This study aims to analyze whether precarious employment is associated with youth mental health, self-rated health and happiness in marriage and whether this association differs by sex. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses longitudinal data from the Survey of Young People in Egypt conducted in 2009 and 2014 and estimates a fixed-effects model to control for time-invariant unobserved individual heterogeneity. The analysis is segregated by sex. Findings The results indicate that precarious employment is significantly associated with poor mental health and less happiness in marriage for males and is positively associated with poor self-reported health for females. The adverse impact of precarious work is likely to be mediated through poor working conditions such as low salary, maltreatment at work, job insecurity and harassment from colleagues. Social implications Governmental policies that tackle job precariousness are expected to improve population health and marital welfare. Originality/value Egypt has witnessed a significant increase in the prevalence of precarious employment, particularly among youth, in recent decades, yet the evidence on its effect on the health and well-being of youth workers is sparse. This paper adds to the extant literature by providing new evidence on the social and health repercussions of job precariousness from an understudied region. |
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