Title
Employment contracts and health selection: Unhealthy employees out and healthy employees in?
Author
Wagenaar, A.F.
Kompier, M.A.J.
Houtman, I.L.D.
van den Bossche, S.N.J.
Taris, T.W.
Publication year
2012
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:: The healthy worker effect implies that healthy workers go "up" in employment status whereas less healthy workers go "down" into precarious temporary employment or unemployment. These hypotheses were tested during an economic recession, by predicting various upward and downward contract trajectories, based on workers' health status, work-related well-being, and work ability. METHODS:: Two waves (2008 and 2009) of the Netherlands Working Conditions Cohort Study (N = 7112) were used and logistic regression analyses were performed to test the hypothesis of this study. RESULTS:: Lower general health and higher emotional exhaustion at baseline predicted future unemployment among permanent employees. Various downward trajectories were also predicted by lower work-related well-being and lower work ability, whereas the opposite was true for one of the upward trajectories. CONCLUSIONS:: Workers with lower health, lower work-related well-being, or lower work ability are at risk for ending up in precarious temporary employment or unemployment. Copyright © 2012 by American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Subject
Organisation
WH - Work & Health
BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Healthy for Life
Workplace
Healthy Living
adult
article
cohort analysis
contract
controlled study
economic recession
emotional stress
employee
employment status
female
health status
human
male
prediction
temporary employment
unemployment
wellbeing
work capacity
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1097/jom.0b013e3182717633
TNO identifier
465843
ISSN
1076-2752
Source
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 54 (10), 1192-1200
Document type
article