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Long working hours and job quality in Europe: gender and welfare state differences

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dc.contributor.author Artazcoz Lazcano, Lucía, 1963-
dc.contributor.author Cortès-Franch, Imma
dc.contributor.author Escribà-Agüir, Vicenta
dc.contributor.author López, María
dc.contributor.author Benavides, Fernando G. (Fernando García)
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-03T07:53:39Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-03T07:53:39Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Artazcoz L, Cortès-Franch I, Escribà-Agüir V, López M, Benavides FG. Long working hours and job quality in Europe: gender and welfare state differences. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018;15(11):e2592. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15112592
dc.identifier.issn 1660-4601
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37166
dc.description.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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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018;15(11):e2592
dc.rights © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title Long working hours and job quality in Europe: gender and welfare state differences
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112592
dc.subject.keyword Gender
dc.subject.keyword Working time
dc.subject.keyword Socioeconomic factors
dc.subject.keyword Working conditions
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