Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, disc...

Why are Italian grown-up children so reluctant to leave the parental home? In this paper we present a theoretical model predicting that this behavior can be induced by high job insecurity of children and low job insecurity of their parents. Both aggregate data for EU countries and microeconometric results, using data from the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth for the 1990s, are broa...

BACKGROUND In the evolving work environment of global competition, the associations between work and home stress and psychological well-being are not well understood. AIMS To examine the impact of psychosocial stress at work and at home on anxiety and depression. METHODS In medically healthy employed men and women (aged 30-60), serial regression analyses were used to determine the independe...

This research reconciled disparate findings regarding the relationship between job insecurity and safety by examining organizational safety climate as a potential moderator. It was predicted that a strong organizational safety climate would attenuate the negative effects of job insecurity on self-reported safety outcomes such as safety knowledge, safety compliance, accidents, and injuries. Data...

OBJECTIVE To explore associations between self-reported hypertension and workplace psychosocial factors that are common among U.S. workers and to identify industries and occupations (I&Os) that are associated with a high prevalence of hypertension, even after adjustment for common known risk factors. METHODS Data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey were used to examine relationship...

A structural model focusing on the spillover effect of parental perceived job insecurity on money anxiety was developed and tested. The crossover effect of parents' money anxiety on their children's money anxiety, money motives, and motivation to work was also examined. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduates and their parents. Results of structural equation modeling analyses suppor...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between perceived job insecurity in the next 12 months and current health with a sample representing working-aged employed adults in southeast Michigan in late 2009/early 2010 (n, 440 to 443). METHODS Logistic regression was used to compare the health of participants who perceived job insecurity with those who did not, with adjustments for objective employ...