FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Labour Market Flexibility, Suicide Attempt

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Chapter 5 health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment, and job. Implications for population health of early 21st century labour market conditions. Helps overcome major problems in changes in labour market conditions and health impact. More jobs require high levels of education. Jobs available to low educated are considered mac-jobs : areas in the fast food industry. Review evidence on relationship between unemployment and mental/physical health. Health effects of flexible labour market policies. Higher prevalence of ill health, excess mortality and the unemployed. Unemployed more likely to describe their health as generally fair or poor. Those ill are more likely to loss their jobs. Indirect effects, such as, lower level of education: less likely to be employed. Essential to assess the possibility of consequence of selection. Health does not necessarily decline during unemployment. Direct health selection = asserts that poorer health increases risk of unemployment. Direct selection = longitudinal data on unemployment and mortality.