Bad Jobs and Health: Do Negative Work Exposures Work Together - WLS

Investigator:   Sarah Burgard

The accumulation of disadvantage over the career, or the movement into and out of bad jobs, may be important components of the work and health connection but have received relatively little research attention. The long-term goal of this research project is to understand how distinct negative aspects of work may affect worker health in the United States by clustering: (1) in particular “bad jobs,” and/or (2) within particular individuals’ careers. The proposed study will begin to explore these questions using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) and will address four specific aims:

Aim 1: To explore whether and how health-damaging bad job characteristics cluster in particular jobs

Aim 2: To examine whether one or more bad job characteristics are related to health and health decline

Aim 3: To assess whether multiple bad job characteristics act additively and/or interact to damage health

Aim 4: To examine how workers move through careers, encountering bad job characteristics singly or in clusters (do bad job characteristics cluster within person-level careers?)

Funding Period: 09/01/2006 to 08/31/2007


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