Who gets fired, who gets re-hired: the role of workers’ contract, age, health, work ability, performance, work satisfaction and employee investments
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Many workers have been dismissed in the past few years, either becoming unemployed or finding re-employment. The current study examined whether dismissal and its follow-up for the employee (re-employment versus unemployment) could be predicted from workers’ employment contract and age, and their health status, work ability, work performance, work satisfaction and employee investments at baseline. The sample comprised a selection of participants from the Netherlands Working Conditions Survey 2010 who participated in a follow-up questionnaire in 2012 (N = 2,644). Logistic regression analyses was used to test the hypotheses, this paper concludes that temporary, less healthy, low work ability, poor performing, dissatisfied and “under-invested” workers are at risk for dismissal, whereas older and less healthy workers are (also) at risk for long-term unemployment after being dismissed.
TNO Identifier
520818
Source
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 88(3), pp. 321-334.
Pages
321-334
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