Is precarious employment damaging to self-rated health? Results of propensity score matching methods, using longitudinal data in South Korea

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1982-1994

  Kim, Myoung Hee ^a   Kim, Chang yup ^b   Park, Jin Kyung ^c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^d  

^a Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Counterfactual; Gender; Job insecurity; Precarious employment; Propensity score; Self rated health; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME; LABOR; LABOR POLICY; LOGISTICS; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA;

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; KOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCERTAINTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 54449097892     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.051     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Ahn J., Nam J.-R., Lee Y.J., Sung J., and Choi K.S. Labor and discrimination: Perception and reality (2007), Korea Labor Institute, Seoul
2. Bardasi E., and Francesconi M. The impact of atypical employment on individual wellbeing: evidence from a panel of British workers. Social Science & Medicine 58 9 (2004) 1671-1688
3. Bartley M., and Ferrie J. Glossary: unemployment, job insecurity, and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 55 11 (2001) 776-781
4. Benach J., Benavides F.G., Platt S., Diez-Roux A., and Muntaner C. The health-damaging potential of new types of flexible employment: a challenge for public health researchers. American Journal of Public Health 90 8 (2000) 1316-1317
5. Benach J., Gimeno D., Benavides F.G., Martinez J.M., and Torne M.D. Types of employment and health in the European Union - changes from 1995 to 2000. European Journal of Public Health 14 3 (2004) 314-321
6. Benach J., Muntaner C., and Santana V. Employment conditions and health inequalities. Final report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) (2007), Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (EMCONET)
7. Benavides F.G., Benach J., Diez-Roux A.V., and Roman C. How do types of employment relate to health indicators? Findings from the Second European Survey on working conditions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 54 7 (2000) 494-501
8. Benavides F.G., Benach J., Muntaner C., Delclos G.L., Catot N., and Amable M. Associations between temporary employment and occupational injury: what are the mechanisms?. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 63 6 (2006) 416-421
9. Caliendo M., and Kopeinig S. Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching. Discussion Paper 485 (2005), DIW German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
10. Chai G.M. An analysis of the causes of nonstandard employment increase after the IMF economic crisis. Korean Sociology 36 5 (2002) 143-169
11. Cho K.W. Precarious workers - a miserable colony, the third class and second-rate worker. Hankyoreh 21 (2002) Seoul
12. Cho K.W. Precarious employment: grudge against a trade union of regular workers. Hankyoreh 21 (2004) Seoul
13. Choi H.J. Precarious employment: violations on a conveyor belt. Hankyoreh 21 (2004) Seoul
14. Choi H.J. Silence over an iron core piercing into a worker's eye - the life of precarious workers. Hankyoreh 21 (2004) Seoul
15. D'Agostino Jr. R.B. Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group. Statistics in Medicine 17 19 (1998) 2265-2281
16. Dooley D., Prause J., and Ham-Rowbottom K.A. Underemployment and depression: longitudinal relationships. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41 4 (2000) 421-436
17. Ferrie J.E., Shipley M.J., Marmot M.G., Martikainen P., Stansfeld S.A., and Smith G.D. Job insecurity in white-collar workers: toward an explanation of associations with health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 6 1 (2001) 26-42
18. Ferrie J.E., Shipley M.J., Marmot M.G., Stansfeld S.A., and Smith G.D. An uncertain future: the health effects of threats to employment security in white-collar men and women. American Journal of Public Health 88 7 (1998) 1030-1036
19. Foster M.F. Measurement of low incomes and poverty in a perspective of international comparison (1994), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris
20. Friedland D.S., and Price R.H. Underemployment: consequences for the health and well-being of workers. American Journal of Community Psychology 32 1-2 (2003) 33-45
21. Gospel H. Quality of working life: A review on changes in work organization, conditions of employment and work-life arrangements (2003), International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
22. Hadden W.C., Muntaner C., Benach J., Gimeno D., and Benavides F.G. A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation: part 3, terms from the sociology of labour markets. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61 1 (2007) 6-8
23. In: Houseman S., and Osawa M. (Eds). Nonstandard work in developed economies: Causes and consequences (2003), W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
24. Idler E.L., and Benyamini Y. Self-rated health and mortality: a review of twenty-seven community studies. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38 1 (1997) 21-37
25. Joung W.O., Seoung E.M., Sohn J.S., and Hong W.P. Beyond the precarious work and social exclusion: The restructuring of the social security system in South Korea (2006), Progressive Politics Institute, Seoul, Korea
26. Kang H. Exclusion of irregular female workers in industrial labor union. Korean Women's Studies 19 1 (2003) 81-111
27. Kang H.-A. A case study on the exclusion of non-regular workers at workplace: a study of contract company workers. Industrial Labor Research 10 1 (2004) 33-56
28. Katz M.H. Multivariable analysis: A practical guide for clinicians (2006), Cambridge University Press, New York
29. Kim I.H., Paek D.M., and Cho S.I. Does non-standard work affect health?. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 38 3 (2005) 337-344
30. Kim S.C., Kim M.J., Kim J.H., Ryu I.S., Park D.J., Yeon J., et al. A shattered future: Stories of precarious workers in a global era (2006), Republic of Korea: Window with the View of Life Publishing, Seoul
31. Kim Y.S. Labor market flexibility and nonstandard workforce increase (2004), Korea Labour and Society Institute, Seoul
32. Kivimaki M., Vahtera J., Virtanen M., Elovainio M., Pentti J., and Ferrie J.E. Temporary employment and risk of overall and cause-specific mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology 158 7 (2003) 663-668
33. Korea Labor Institute. User's guide: Korean labor and income panel study (2004), Korea Labor Institute, Seoul
34. Korea Labor Institute. KLI labor statistics (2007), Korea Labor Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
35. Korea National Statistical Office. Annual report on the Economically Active Population Survey (2004), Korea National Statistical Office, Daejeon, Korea
36. Krieger N. Discrimination and health. In: Berkman L., and Kawachi I. (Eds). Social epidemiology (2001), Oxford University Press, New York
37. Lee K.Y., Park J.S., Moon Y.H., Lee K.H., Choi S.W., Lee N., et al. Conditions of working population vulnerable to occupational injuries (2006), Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Incheon, Republic of Korea
38. Lee M.W. The 'second-class citizen' on a dead end. Kyunghyang Newspaper, (2007) Seoul
39. Lynch J., and Kaplan G. Socioeconomic position. In: Berkman L., and Kawachi I. (Eds). Social epidemiology (2000), Oxford University Press, New York
40. Maldonado G., and Greenland S. Estimating causal effects. International Journal of Epidemiology 31 2 (2002) 422-429
41. Martinez E., and Garcia A. What is neoliberalism? A brief definition for activists (2000), CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
42. Mauno S., Kinnunen U., Makikangas A., and Natti J. Psychological consequences of fixed-term employment and perceived job insecurity among health care staff. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 14 3 (2005) 209-237
43. McDonough P. Job insecurity and health. International Journal of Health Services 30 3 (2000) 453-476
44. Menendez M., Benach J., Muntaner C., Amable M., and O'Campo P. Is precarious employment more damaging to women's health than men's?. Social Science & Medicine 64 4 (2007) 776-781
45. In: O'Connor J.S., and Olsen G.M. (Eds). Power resource theory and the welfare state: A critical approach (1998), University of Toronto Press, Toronto
46. Oakes J.M., and Johnson P.M. Propensity score matching for social epidemiology. In: Oakes J.M., and Kaufman J.S. (Eds). Methods in social epidemiology (2006), Jossey-Bass
47. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD.StatExtracts (2007)
48. ® users group international conference (2004), SAS Institute Inc, Montreal, Canada
49. Quinlan M., Mayhew C., and Bohle P. The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganization, and consequences for occupational health: a review of recent research. International Journal of Health Services 31 2 (2001) 335-414
50. Quinlan M., Mayhew C., and Bohle P. The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganization, and consequences for occupational health: placing the debate in a comparative historical context. International Journal of Health Services 31 3 (2001) 507-536
51. Rodriguez E. Marginal employment and health in Britain and Germany: does unstable employment predict health?. Social Science & Medicine 55 6 (2002) 963-979
52. Rosenbaum P.R. Observational studies (2002), Springer, New York
53. Rosenbaum P.R., and Rubin D.B. The central role of propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika 70 1 (1983) 41-55
54. Shah B.R., Laupacis A., Hux J.E., and Austin P.C. Propensity score methods gave similar results to traditional regression modeling in observational studies: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58 6 (2005) 550-559
55. Virtanen M., Kivimaki M., Elovainio M., Vahtera J., and Cooper C.L. Contingent employment, health and sickness absence. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 27 6 (2001) 365-372
56. Virtanen M., Kivimaki M., Elovainio M., Vahtera J., and Ferrie J.E. From insecure to secure employment: changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 60 12 (2003) 948-953
57. Virtanen M., Kivimaki M., Joensuu M., Virtanen P., Elovainio M., and Vahtera J. Temporary employment and health: a review. International Journal of Epidemiology 34 3 (2005) 610-622
58. Virtanen P., Liukkonen V., Vahtera J., Kivimaki M., and Koskenvuo M. Health inequalities in the workforce: the labour market core-periphery structure. International Journal of Epidemiology 32 6 (2003) 1015-1021
59. Virtanen P., Vahtera J., Kivimaki M., Liukkonen V., Virtanen M., and Ferrie J. Labor market trajectories and health: a four-year follow-up study of initially fixed-term employees. American Journal of Epidemiology 161 9 (2005) 840-846
60. Virtanen P., Vahtera J., Kivimaki M., Pentti J., and Ferrie J. Employment security and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56 8 (2002) 569-574