Precarious Employment and Well-Being: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Work Occup. 2023 Feb;50(1):3-21. doi: 10.1177/07308884221143063.ABSTRACTWhile precarious employment is not a new concept, it has been brought to the center of scholarly and public discourse worldwide by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. This essay delineates how precarious employment shapes well-being and situates that relationship in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The essay also provides an overview of how the nine articles boldly investigate how these two layers of global risk-precarious employment and the pandemic-interact to shape individuals' well-being. In addition to advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge by analyzing timely data from diverse sources and populations, these articles call for more efforts on worker protection reforms and government financial support.PMID:38603256 | PMC:PMC9726637 | DOI:10.1177/07308884221143063
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