Long Working Hours and Job Quality in Europe: Gender and Welfare State Differences
Por:
Artazcoz, L, Cortes-Franch, I, Escriba-Aguir, V, Lopez, M, Benavides, FG
Publicada:
1 nov 2018
Resumen:
Chronic extreme long working hours (LWH) have been found consistently associated with poor health status. However, the evidence for moderately LWH (41-60 h a week) is contradictory. Although poor job quality has been proposed as one of the mechanisms of this relationship, there are almost no studies about LWH and job quality. The objectives of this study were to analyze the association between moderately LWH and job quality in the EU27, as well as to examine differences by welfare regimes and gender. This is a cross-sectional study based on data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey. A subsample of employees from the EU27 aged 16-64 years who worked 30-60 h a week was selected (12,574 men and 8787 women). Overall, moderately LWH were not consistently associated with poor job quality except among women from Eastern European countries. Therefore, in the EU27 poor job quality does not seem to explain the relationship between moderately LWH and poor health status. The findings among women from Eastern European countries may be related to their weakened position in the labor market and to their work-family conflict resulting from a process of re-familisation that constrains their choices for a good job.
Filiaciones:
Artazcoz, L:
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Barcelona 08023, Spain
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, Madrid 28029, Spain
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Ctr Res Occupat Hlth, Barcelona 08002, Spain
Inst Biomed Res IIB St Pau, Barcelona 08041, Spain
Cortes-Franch, I:
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Barcelona 08023, Spain
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, Madrid 28029, Spain
Inst Biomed Res IIB St Pau, Barcelona 08041, Spain
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Med, Dept Pediat Obstet & Ginecol & Med Prevent, Barcelona 08193, Spain
Escriba-Aguir, V:
Univ Valencia, Nursing Dept, Ctr Publ Hlth Res, Hlth Inequal Area, Valencia 46010, Spain
Reg Minist Hlth, Valencian Sch Hlth Studies, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia 46010, Spain
Lopez, M:
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Ctr Res Occupat Hlth, Barcelona 08002, Spain
Benavides, FG:
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, Madrid 28029, Spain
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Ctr Res Occupat Hlth, Barcelona 08002, Spain
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