European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), 1210 Brussels, Belgium.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 7;19(8):4456. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19084456.
Research shows strong links between working time organization and workers' health outcomes. Working time is also known to be highly gendered, with men and women working to different schedules. This article merges these two strands of research and takes a gender-based approach to investigating the relationship between temporal job quality and self-reported health in Europe. First, the sixth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) is used to establish the relationship between temporal dimensions of job quality and health and well-being outcomes for employed women and men. This is then corroborated using larger samples and more restricted measures of job quality drawn from micro-data from the 2019-2020 EU Labor Force Survey (LFS). The analyses show that good temporal job quality is positively associated with health and subjective well-being for both women and men, but this effect is significantly stronger for women, who are also at a greater risk of exposure to low control over working time and time under-employment. The findings highlight the importance of studying the impact of working and employment conditions on health from gender perspective, and the need for further exploration of job quality due to changes in the spatio-temporal organization of work during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
研究表明，工作时间组织与工人的健康结果之间存在密切联系。工作时间也被认为具有高度的性别差异，男性和女性的工作时间不同。本文将这两个研究方向结合起来，从性别角度研究欧洲时间维度的工作质量与自我报告的健康之间的关系。首先，利用第六次欧洲工作条件调查（EWCS）的数据，确定了时间维度的工作质量与就业女性和男性的健康和幸福感结果之间的关系。然后，利用来自 2019-2020 年欧盟劳动力调查（LFS）微观数据的更大样本和更严格的工作质量衡量标准对其进行了验证。分析表明，良好的时间维度的工作质量与女性和男性的健康和主观幸福感呈正相关，但这种影响对女性更为显著，女性面临的工作时间控制低和就业时间不足的风险也更大。研究结果强调了从性别角度研究工作和就业条件对健康的影响的重要性，也需要进一步探讨工作质量，因为在新冠疫情期间和之后，工作的时空组织发生了变化。
