Underemployment and its impacts on mental health among those with disabilities: Evidence from the HILDA cohort

A Milner; TL King; AD Lamontagne; Z Aitken; D Petrie; AM Kavanagh

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Underemployment and its impacts on mental health among those with disabilities: Evidence from the HILDA cohort

A Milner, TL King, AD Lamontagne, Z Aitken, D Petrie, AM Kavanagh

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-209800

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Abstract

Background Underemployment (defined as when a person in paid employment works for fewer hours than their desired full working capacity) is increasingly recognised as a component of employment precarity. This paper sought to investigate the effects of underemployment on the mental health of people with disabilities. Methods Using 14 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, we used fixed-effects models to assess whether the presence of a disability modified the association between underemployment and mental health. Both disability and underemployment were assessed as time-varying factors. Measures of effect measure modification were presented on the additive scal..

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Funding Acknowledgements

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence: Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (APP1116385); ARC Discovery project: Socio-economic and wellbeing outcomes following acquisition of a disability at working age (DP170101434). DP was supported under an ARC Discovery Early Career Award funding scheme (DE150100309).