Employment contracts: Cross-sectional and longitudinal relations with quality of working life, health and well-being.

Autor/inn/en	Kompier, Michiel; Fekke Ybema, Jan; Janssen, Julia; Taris, Toon
Titel	Employment contracts: Cross-sectional and longitudinal relations with quality of working life, health and well-being. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Arbeitsverträge: Sektorenübergreifende und längsschnittliche Zusammenhänge mit der Qualität des Arbeitslebens, Gesundheit und Zufriedenheit.
Quelle	In: Journal of occupational health, 51 (2009) 3, S. 193-203 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1341-9145; 1348-9585
DOI	10.1539/joh.L8150
Schlagwörter	Arbeitsbelastung; Zufriedenheit; Berufskrankheit; Gesundheitsverhalten; Arbeitsbedingungen; Arbeit; Arbeitsqualität; Leiharbeitnehmer; Qualifikationsniveau; Arbeitsvertrag; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag; Unbefristeter Arbeitsvertrag; Niederlande
Abstract	The aim of this study was to enhance (1.) insight in the relationship between different types of employment contract and the quality of working life, health and well-being, and (2.) our causal understanding ot these relationship by comparing employees whose contract type changes across time.; Analyses were based on a two-year prospective cohort study. Cross-sectional analyses were based upon a sample of 2,454 Dutch employees (2004). Longitudinal data were available for 1,865 respondents (2004-2006). We distinguished among 5 contract types, and subgroups of "Upward" (i.e., towards permanent employment) and "Downward" (towards temporary employment) movers across time. Data were analysed with analysis of variance and cross table analysis.; Cross-sectionally, we found differences between contract types in quality of working life: generally permanent employees had better jobs, whereas temporary agency workers and on call workers had more "bad work characteristics". We also found a difference in health behaviour (smoking) and that psychological health was worst among temporary agency workers. In longitudinal analyses we found some evidence that a positive change in employment contract was associated with a better quality of working life and better psychological health, whereas the opposite was true for a negative contract change.; The quality of working life, health and well-being are unequally distributed over employment contract groups. Temporary agency workers and on-call workers deserve special attention in terms of job design and human resource management.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/1