Is precarious employment more damaging to women's health than men's?

Is precarious employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

Precarious employment and health: analysis of the Comprehensive National Survey in Japan.

Recent studies suggest that unstable employment contracts may affect the health of workers. Many Japanese workers working full time in ostensibly permanent positions actually operate within unstable and precarious employment conditions. We compared the health status of Japanese workers with precarious employment contracts with that of permanent workers using the 2007 Comprehensive Survey of Liv...

Precarious employment and health: developing a research agenda.

S ince at least the late 1970s, ‘‘flexible production’’ has commonly been considered as a positive and necessary innovation to ensure sustainable economic growth. 2 The need to be ‘‘flexible’’ has been proposed for workplace technical systems, schedules and salaries, and ‘‘flexibility’’ has even been recognised as a positive feature of a worker’s personality. Increasing labour flexibility means...

Men's and women's migration in coastal Ghana: An event history analysis.

This article uses life history calendar (LHC) data from coastal Ghana and event history statistical methods to examine inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: rural-urban, rural-rural, urban-urban, and urban-rural. Our analysis is unique because it examines how key determinants of migration- including education, employment, marital status, and chil...

Cognitive Health Messages in Popular Women’s and Men’s Magazines, 2006-2007

INTRODUCTION Growing evidence suggests that physical activity, healthy diets, and social engagement may promote cognitive health. Popular media helps establish the public health agenda. In this study, we describe articles about cognitive health in top-circulating women's and men's magazines. METHODS To identify articles on cognitive health, we manually searched all pages of 4 top-circulating ...