abstract: 'We aimed to evaluate the health effects of precarious employment based

  on a counterfactual framework, using the Korea Labor and Income Panel

  Survey data. At the 4th wave (2001), information was obtained on 1991

  male and 1378 female waged workers. Precarious work was defined on the

  basis of workers employed on a temporary or daily basis, part-time, or

  in a contingent (fixed short-term) job. The outcome was self-rated

  health with five response categories. Confounding factors included age,

  marital status, education, industry and occupation of current

  employment, household income, residential area, and prior health status.

  Propensity scores for each individual to be a precarious worker were

  calculated from logistic models including those covariates, and based on

  them, precarious workers were matched to non-precarious workers. Then,

  we examined the effects of precarious employment on health and explored

  the potential intermediary variables, using ordered logistic Generalized

  Estimating Equations models. All analyses were performed separately by

  gender. Precarious workers were found to be in a lower socioeconomic

  position and to have worse health status. Univariate matched analyses

  showed that precarious employment was associated with worse health in

  both men and women. By further controlling for socio-demographic

  covariates, the odds ratios were attenuated but remained significant.

  job satisfaction, especially as related to job insecurity, and monthly

  wage further attenuated the effects. This suggests that to improve

  health status of precarious workers in Korea. policy strategies need to

  tackle the channeling of the socially disadvantaged into precarious

  jobs. Also. regulations to eliminate discrimination against precarious

  workers in working conditions or material reward should be introduced

  and enforced. There is no doubt that job insecurity, which is pervasive

  among workers in Korea, should be minimized by suspending

  market-oriented labor policies which rely on quantitative flexibility.

  (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Kim, CY (Corresponding Author), Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Hlth Policy \&
  Management, Sch Publ Hlth, 28 Yongon Dong, Seoul 110799, South Korea.

  Kim, Chang-yup, Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Hlth Policy \& Management, Sch Publ Hlth,
  Seoul 110799, South Korea.

  Kim, Myoung-Hee, Eulji Univ, Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Taejon, South Korea.

  Park, Jin-Kyung, Int Vaccine Inst, Transnatl Res Div, Seoul, South Korea.

  Kawachi, Ichiro, Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Soc Human Dev \& Hlth, Boston,
  MA 02115 USA.'
author: Kim, Myoung-Hee and Kim, Chang-yup and Park, Jin-Kyung and Kawachi, Ichiro
author-email: 'mhkim@eulji.ac.kr

  cykim@snu.ac.kr

  jkpark@ivi.int

  society@hsph.harvard.edu'
author_list:
- family: Kim
  given: Myoung-Hee
- family: Kim
  given: Chang-yup
- family: Park
  given: Jin-Kyung
- family: Kawachi
  given: Ichiro
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.051
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'Self-rated health; Job insecurity; Precarious employment;

  Counterfactual; Causality; Propensity score; Gender; South Korea'
keywords-plus: 'TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT; JOB INSECURITY; WORK DISORGANIZATION;

  OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH; SICKNESS ABSENCE; GLOBAL EXPANSION; CONSEQUENCES;

  UNDEREMPLOYMENT; MORTALITY; SECURITY'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '12'
number-of-cited-references: '59'
orcid-numbers: Kim, Chang-yup/0000-0002-4389-2454
pages: 1982-1994
papis_id: 5aa932b20ce9ff4dc19576271e28c9fa
ref: Kim2008isprecarious
times-cited: '132'
title: Is precarious employment damaging to self-rated health? Results of propensity
  score matching methods, using longitudinal data in South Korea
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000261993900006
usage-count-last-180-days: '4'
usage-count-since-2013: '59'
volume: '67'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2008'