As labor markets have become increasingly volatile, more workers are susceptible to conditions that threaten their economic security. COVID-19 has further laid bare such insecurity with far-reaching implications for coping skills and strategies. Using a cross-sectional dataset collected in May 2020 the United States, we examined how precarious jobs were associated alcohol or substance use among...

Background: The mixed empirical evidence about employment conditions (i.e., permanent vs. temporary job, full-time vs. part-time job) as well as unemployment has motivated the development of conceptual models with the aim of assessing the pathways leading to effects of employment status on health. Alongside physically and psychologically riskier working conditions, one channel stems in the poss...

The article proposes a novel multidimensional operationalization of precarious employment using the Alkire-Foster dual threshold counting approach methodology. proposal is made in context which, although tends to be considered construct characterized by an accumulation unfavourable features quality, there neither standard and generally accepted definition nor phenomenon literature. proposed met...