This paper examines the relationships between employment status, social capital, and the political participation of young people. To do so, we compare young long-term unemployed, precarious youth, and regularly employed youth. These are three groups that have a different employment status, going from being totally integrated to being fully excluded from the labor market, passing through a sort ...

• health: physical and mental health, public health issues; • education: including low educational attainment and skill levels; • employment: low status and precarious employment, worklessness and low levels of employability; • behaviour: inhibiting and anti-social behaviour including crime, smoking, substance misuse and suicide; • financial: income, assets and material hardship; • family and p...

BACKGROUND Temporary employment, a precarious form of employment, is recognized as social determinant of poor health. However, evidence supporting precarious employment as a risk factor for health is mainly obtained from subjective data. Studies using objective clinical measurement data in the assessment of health status are limited. This study compared body mass index (BMI), lipid and glucose ...

Precarious employment has been associated with poor mental health. Moreover, increasing labour market precariousness may cause individuals to feel 'locked-in', in non-desired workplaces or occupations, out of fear of not finding a new employment. This could be experienced as a 'loss of control', with similar negative health consequences. It is plausible that the extent to which being in a non-d...

OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to "bad jobs," and labor union membership across the life course are associated with the risk of early retirement. METHODS Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a large (N=8,609) sample of men and women who graduated from high school in 1957, we estimated discrete-time event history models for the transition...

Managing precarious employment arrangements. Professional contractors and social support Robyn Cochrane and Tui McKeown Monash University This study presents the sources of social support available to and used by a 240 Professional Contractors (PCs) in Victoria, Australia. As part of the non-standard workforce, the PCs in this study access work via professional recruitment/contracting agencies ...

Current global economic trends in both developed and developing countries, including unregulated labor markets, trade competition and technological change, have greatly expanded a complex labor market situation characterised by many employees working under temporary work status, job insecurity, low social protection and low income level. Although the health of women is disproportionately affect...