Patel Meet, Waynforth David
University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Bond University, 14 University Dr, Robina, QLD 4227, Australia.
SSM Popul Health. 2022 Jul 31;19:101182. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101182. eCollection 2022 Sep.
In recent decades, there has been a rise of the "gig-economy" where workers are given non-standard work agreements, and work is completed in an ad-hoc nature. It was believed people this would create greater access to employment for people with disability as there would no longer be a need to disclose disability and could 'pick and choose' work. Although, little research has been done on the health-outcomes of working in non-standard agreements compared to traditional employment, and in particular it's impact on disability.
This study examines one particular non-standard workplace agreement, working under zero hour contracts as the main source of income as a predictor for disability at age 46 and how income levels effect this, while controlling for pre-existing illness at age 34.
This study used existing data made available in the 1970 British Cohort study. Age 46 and Age 34 sweeps were used, including predictors for disability such as zero hour work, sex, and income, and binary multiple logistic regression was used.
This study was able to demonstrate that there is an association between working under a zero hour contract as the main source of income and disability. Further, this study shows that this association is statistically significant at low incomes but not at high incomes.
The relationship between zero hour work and disability presented in this study may suggest that zero hour work will produce a burden on healthcare systems and limit further economic outputs by limiting individual's capacity for work.
近几十年来，“零工经济”兴起，劳动者签订的是非标准工作协议，工作以临时方式完成。人们认为，这将为残疾人创造更多就业机会，因为他们无需再披露残疾情况，并且可以“挑选”工作。然而，与传统就业相比，关于非标准协议工作的健康结果，尤其是其对残疾的影响，研究甚少。
本研究考察一种特定的非标准工作场所协议，即以零时工合同作为主要收入来源，作为46岁时残疾的预测因素，以及收入水平如何影响这一因素，同时控制34岁时的既往疾病。
本研究使用了1970年英国队列研究中的现有数据。采用46岁和34岁时的调查数据，包括零时工工作、性别和收入等残疾预测因素，并使用二元多重逻辑回归分析。
本研究能够证明，以零时工合同作为主要收入来源与残疾之间存在关联。此外，本研究表明，这种关联在低收入水平上具有统计学意义，而在高收入水平上则不然。
本研究中呈现的零时工工作与残疾之间的关系可能表明，零时工工作将给医疗系统带来负担，并通过限制个人工作能力来限制进一步的经济产出。
