JOEM: Precarious Employment and Self-Rated Health in Young Adults (June 2022)-JOEM: Precarious Employment and Self-Rated Health in Young Adults (June 2022)

JOEM: Precarious Employment and Self-Rated Health in Young Adults (June 2022)

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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between employment changes, including sustained precarious employment (PE), and poor self-rated health (SRH) in young Korean adults. The study used data from the Korea Youth Panel Survey 2007 and included 1265 young adults. The results showed that the risk of poor SRH was significantly higher in sustained PE compared to full-time permanent employment in young male adults and overall. However, in young female adults, PE was not clearly associated with poor SRH risk. The study emphasized the importance of improving the health of young workers with PE and employment quality for young people vulnerable to PE. The study concluded that sustained PE has a negative impact on the health of young male adults, while the association was not significant for young female adults. The findings suggest the need for policy considerations to improve job quality and security for the young population and measures for the health management of young workers in PE. Future research should include larger sample sizes, more health-related covariates, and systematic measurements of PE to further explore the relationship between PE and health outcomes.

Keywords

employment changes

sustained precarious employment

poor self-rated health

young Korean adults

Korea Youth Panel Survey

young male adults

young female adults

employment quality

health management

job quality