Insecure, Sick and Unhappy? Well-Being Consequences of Temporary Employment Contracts

Vincenzo Carrieri, Cinzia Di Novi, Rowena Jacobs and Silvana Robone

A chapter in Factors Affecting Worker Well-being: The Impact of Change in the Labor Market, 2014, vol. 40, pp 157-193 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This paper investigates the influences of temporary contracts along several dimensions of well-being (physical and mental health, self-assessed health and happiness) for young Italian workers. Our paper contributes to the literature exploring some new aspects of the relationship between temporary jobs and well-being in a country not frequently analysed in previous literature. We focus on the gender gap in the well-being consequences of non-permanent jobs, the influence of financial support by family in reducing well-being effects caused by temporary contracts and the interaction between gender gap and family support. We find that temporary contracts are damaging in terms of psychological health and happiness mostly for young men and individuals without family economic support. On the other hand, women’s mental health is not affected by temporary contracts and they are even better off in terms of their mental health and well-being when receiving family economic support.

Keywords: Health; happiness; psychological well-being; young employees; fixed-term contracts; I12; J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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