According to a study, job uncertainty increases the risk of dying young

According to a study by the Karolinska Institutet that was published in The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Reports, people without a secure job contract can cut their risk of dying young by 20% if they acquire permanent employment.

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Precarious employment

The researchers' findings indicate that Sweden's employment security has to increase. Precarious employment is a word used to characterise positions with short contracts (such as temping), poor pay, and limited power and rights, all of which result in an unstable and uncertain working environment.

Researchers have looked at how this influences the chance of mortality in the current study. Theo Bodin, an assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institutet, is the paper's last author and claims that this is the first study to demonstrate how switching from a precarious to a secure job can lower the risk of dying.

It's equivalent to saying that continuing to work in jobs without a stable employment contract increases the danger of an early death.

Study on Swedish Workers

Over 250,000 Swedish workers between the ages of 20 and 55 provided registry data that was collected from 2005 to 2017. Participants in the study were those who had previously employed insecure jobs before switching to secure ones.

Compared to those who stayed in insecure employment, those who made the transfer from precarious to secure employment had a 20% decreased risk of passing away, regardless of what transpired following. After 12 years in stable employment, there was a 30% reduction in the probability of dying.

According to Nuria Matilla-Santander, assistant professor at the same institute and the study's first author, Using a huge database helped us to take into consideration of many factors that might affect mortality, such as age, other diseases that workers can suffer from, or life changes, like divorce.

She said that, the techniques they employed allow them to reasonably conclude that the difference in mortality is caused by the insecure nature of employment rather than by individual factors. The findings are significant because they demonstrate how the higher death rate seen in employees might be reduced. In Sweden, they can save early deaths if there is lessen labour market precarity.

The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) provided the majority of the funding for the study. According to Dr. Matilla-Santander, the research's next step is to look into the precise reasons of mortality in this area.

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