Is Being Employed Always Better for Mental Wellbeing Than Being Unemployed? Exploring the Role of Gender and Welfare State Regimes during the Economic Crisis
| Autor: | Hernán Vargas-Leguás, M. Marta Arcas, Lucía Artazcoz, Imma Cortès-Franch, Vanessa Puig-Barrachina |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Employment Male unemployment Adolescent Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Logistic regression Mental wellbeing Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Sex Factors 050602 political science & public administration gender Humans Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine job quality media_common 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Welfare state Middle Aged mental wellbeing 0506 political science European Social Survey Europe Job quality Cross-Sectional Studies Economic Recession Mental Health Social protection Unemployment Demographic economics welfare states Female Psychology Social Welfare |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau instname Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Volume 16 Issue 23 |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 1661-7827 |
| Popis: | The growth of poor jobs related to economic crisis adds to its increase since the mid-1970s as a result of new forms of flexible employment. In Europe, there is no clear evidence on whether working in a poor-quality job is better for mental wellbeing than being unemployed. The objectives of this study were to compare mental wellbeing between the unemployed and those working in jobs with different quality levels and to examine gender and welfare state differences in Europe. We selected 8324 men and 7496 women from the European Social Survey, 2010. Hierarchical multiple logistic regression models were fitted, separated by sex and country group. No significant differences in mental wellbeing were shown between unemployed-non-active, unemployed-active, and those working in low-quality jobs in either sex. Only men from Conservative countries in low-quality jobs had better mental wellbeing than unemployed (non-active) men. Only having a good-quality job reduced the likelihood of poor mental wellbeing compared with being unemployed (non-active) among men in all countries (except Social-Democratic) and among women in Eastern and Southern European countries. No differences were observed among men or women in Social-Democratic countries, while strong gender differences were found in Conservative and Liberal countries. Our study indicates the need to take job quality into account, in addition to creating jobs during economic crises. The main mechanisms to explain the strong gender and welfare state differences identified could be social protection for unemployed, labor market regulations, and family models. |
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