Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach

Autor: Satu Helske, Markus Keski-Säntti, Juha Kivelä, Aapo Juutinen, Antti Kääriälä, Mika Gissler, Marko Merikukka, Tea Lallukka
Přispěvatelé: University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ)
Rok vydání: 2023
Předmět:
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Work
Economy and Organizations

bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Family
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Race
Gender
and Class

SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Inequality
Poverty
and Mobility

Sequence analysis
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Children and Youth
Life course
mixture Markov model
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
Key words labour-market attachment
3141 Health care science
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Family
Life Course
and Society

SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Labor and Labor Movements
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Early careers
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Inequality and Stratification
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Zdroj: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. 14:73-104
ISSN: 1757-9597
Popis: Background and objectives: To extend work careers, it is important to focus on all working-aged people, including young adults. However, there is little knowledge about the stability of early careers and its life course social and health-related determinants. The aim of this study is to identify what kind of typical patterns of work participation and transitions between different statuses can be identified among young adults after their first entry into the labour market, and to examine whether the timing of entry together with parental and own socioeconomic position and health predict early work participation patterns.Methods: We used the Finnish Birth Cohort 1987 including data from several registers from all 59,476 children born in 1987 as well as their parents, followed until the end of 2015. We created sequences of monthly work participation statuses starting from the calendar month when a cohort member had their first at least six-month long spell in employment or entrepreneurship. Work participation statuses (8 categories) were collected for 60 months or until the end of the follow-up. We included altogether 51,871 individuals with an entry into paid employment, who could be followed for at least 12 subsequent months. Parental social and health-related covariates were included from national registers. We used first sequence analysis and cluster analysis to identify latent groups ofindividuals with similar work participation patterns. Next, we estimated a mixture Markov model that allows for identification of latent classes of labour market attachment, estimation of labour market transitions within classes, and prediction of class membership using childhood social and healthrelated determinants.Results: We observed that entry into the labour market as measured by six months in continuous employment was not a permanent entry for many, not only due to unemployment and health-related exits but also due to studies and parental leave. During the first five years, we observed a fairly linear relationship between the age at entry and early work participation pattern: individuals entering the labour market at a later age were more likely to be in continuous employment thereafter (all else equal). Regarding both own and parental social- and health-related childhood factors, latent classes show clear patterns of accumulated advantage and disadvantage: more advantaged background predicted exits due to studies or – when following a late entry – stable employment, while disadvantaged background factors predicted more unstable work and long-term exits from the labour market.Conclusions: There are varied work participation patterns and transitions between employment statuses among young employees. More in-depth understanding of these patterns and their determinants is important to plan targeted interventions and to promote more stable work participation among young adults.
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