Long Working Hours and Job Quality in Europe : Gender and Welfare State Differences
Artazcoz, Lucía 1963- (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Cortès-Franch, Imma (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Pediatria, Obstetrícia i Ginecologia i de Medicina Preventiva i Salut Pública)
Escribà-Agüir, Vicenta (Conselleria de Sanidad Universal y Salud Pública. València)
López-Ruiz, María (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Benavides, Fernando García (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Date:	2018
Abstract:	Chronic extreme long working hours (LWH) have been found consistently associated with poor health status. However, the evidence for moderately LWH (41-60 h a week) is contradictory. Although poor job quality has been proposed as one of the mechanisms of this relationship, there are almost no studies about LWH and job quality. The objectives of this study were to analyze the association between moderately LWH and job quality in the EU27, as well as to examine differences by welfare regimes and gender. This is a cross-sectional study based on data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey. A subsample of employees from the EU27 aged 16-64 years who worked 30-60 h a week was selected (12,574 men and 8787 women). Overall, moderately LWH were not consistently associated with poor job quality except among women from Eastern European countries. Therefore, in the EU27 poor job quality does not seem to explain the relationship between moderately LWH and poor health status. The findings among women from Eastern European countries may be related to their weakened position in the labor market and to their work-family conflict resulting from a process of re-familisation that constrains their choices for a good job.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Gender ; Working time ; Socioeconomic factors ; Working conditions
Published in:	International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol. 15 (november 2018) , ISSN 1660-4601

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15112592
PMID: 30463351

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