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Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being

Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being
Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being
This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job satisfaction. Previous research has identified a well-being gap between permanent and temporary employees but has not addressed what individual and contract specific characteristics contribute to this observed difference. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, the article finds that a large proportion of the difference in self-reported well-being between permanent and temporary employees appears to be explained by differences in satisfaction with job security. Other dimensions of job satisfaction are found to be less important. In fact, after controlling for differences in satisfaction with security, the results suggest that temporary employees report higher psychological well-being and life satisfaction. This indicates that an employment contract characterized by a definite duration lowers individual well-being principally through heightened job insecurity
job insecurity, job satisfaction, subjective well-being, temporary employment
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Dawson, Chris
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Veliziotis, Michail
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Hopkins, Benjamin
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Dawson, Chris
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Veliziotis, Michail
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Hopkins, Benjamin
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Dawson, Chris, Veliziotis, Michail and Hopkins, Benjamin (2014) Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 38 (1), 1-30. (doi:10.1177/0143831X14559781).

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This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job satisfaction. Previous research has identified a well-being gap between permanent and temporary employees but has not addressed what individual and contract specific characteristics contribute to this observed difference. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, the article finds that a large proportion of the difference in self-reported well-being between permanent and temporary employees appears to be explained by differences in satisfaction with job security. Other dimensions of job satisfaction are found to be less important. In fact, after controlling for differences in satisfaction with security, the results suggest that temporary employees report higher psychological well-being and life satisfaction. This indicates that an employment contract characterized by a definite duration lowers individual well-being principally through heightened job insecurity

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e-pub ahead of print date: 17 December 2014
Keywords: job insecurity, job satisfaction, subjective well-being, temporary employment
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 394264
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/394264
ISSN: 0143-831X
PURE UUID: 4fe0e060-6574-4a8a-9009-fd5f0fe21f5f
ORCID for Michail Veliziotis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2245-587X

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Date deposited: 12 May 2016 11:46
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:53

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Author: Chris Dawson
Author: Benjamin Hopkins

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