Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21079 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 232
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard contracts, places, times, and weekly hours of work) are analysed and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) index is used as the measure of mental health. We find evidence of only a modest effect of all types of flexible employment on the GHQ scores of men and women. Although the workers? non-standard employment behaviour does not significantly vary with their endowments and unobserved inputs, population health heterogeneity may still have a critical effect on the observed changes in labour market behaviour. Finally, we find some significant effect of non-standard employment on mental health when the sample is stratified by age and education.
Subjects: 
Mental health
non-standard employment
panel data
fixed-effects model
endowment heterogeneity
JEL: 
I12
J22
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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