Measuring Precarious Employment: Type of Contract Can Lead to Serious Misclassification Error

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Título	Measuring Precarious Employment: Type of Contract Can Lead to Serious Misclassification Error
Autor (es)	Alejandra Vives, Francisca Gonzalez Lopez, Joan Benach
Línea (s)	Built Environment
Año de publicación	2020
Revista	Annals of Work Exposures and Health
Palabras claves	exposure misclassification, precarious employment, temporary employment
Resumen	This study aims to assess the accuracy of temporary employment as indicator or proxy measure of precarious employment. Using sensitivity and specificity analysis, we compared type of contract (temporary versus permanent) with the Chilean version of the multidimensional Employment Precariousness Scale. Temporary employment exhibited very low sensitivity (<30%) (specificity >90%), resulting in roughly 38% of false negative results. Different EPRES-Ch cut-off scores produced similar results. The main implication of these findings is that the public health relevance of precarious employment is being underestimated both in terms of prevalence and of its association with health, making it critical that valid multidimensional measures of precarious employment be implemented.
Doi	https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxaa089
Autor de correspondencia	Alejandra Vives, alejandra.vives@uc.cl