TY - JOUR
T1 - Job insecurity
T2 - A comparative analysis between migrant and native workers in australia
AU - Liu, Xiaomin
AU - Bowe, Steven J.
AU - Milner, Allison
AU - Li, Lin
AU - Too, Lay San
AU - Lamontagne, Anthony D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The data were procured from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA). This study was approved by the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (No. 2017-226).
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This paper uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA Project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. The findings and views reported in this paper, however, are those of the authors and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute. The authors declare no conflict of interest relating to the material presented in this article. Its contents, including any opinions, and/or conclusions expressed, are solely those of the authors. We wish to dedicate this paper to the memory of our co-author and valued colleague, Allison Milner, who died tragically and prematurely in August of 2019 in the final stage of writing this paper.
Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Job insecurity is a modifiable risk factor for poor health outcomes, and exposure to job insecurity varies by population groups. This study assessed if job insecurity exposure varied by migrant status and if the differences varied by gender, age, educational attainment, and occupational skill level. Data were from wave 14 of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. The outcome was job insecurity. Exposure was migrant status defined by (1) the country of birth (COB), (2) the dominant language of the COB, and (3) the number of years since arrival in Australia. Data were analysed using linear regression, adjusting for gender, age, educational attainment, and occupational skill level. These covariates were also analysed as effect modifiers for the migrant status–job insecurity relationships. Migrant workers, especially those from non-English speaking countries (non-ESC-born), experienced higher job insecurity than Australia-born workers; however, these disparities disappeared after 11+ years post-arrival. The migrant status–job insecurity relationships were modified by educational attainment. Unexpectedly, the disparities in job insecurity between non-ESC-born migrants and Australia-born workers increased with increasing educational attainment, and for those most highly educated, the disparities persisted beyond 11 years post-arrival. Our findings suggested that continuing language skill support and discrimination prevention could facilitate migrant integration into the Australian labour market.
AB - Job insecurity is a modifiable risk factor for poor health outcomes, and exposure to job insecurity varies by population groups. This study assessed if job insecurity exposure varied by migrant status and if the differences varied by gender, age, educational attainment, and occupational skill level. Data were from wave 14 of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. The outcome was job insecurity. Exposure was migrant status defined by (1) the country of birth (COB), (2) the dominant language of the COB, and (3) the number of years since arrival in Australia. Data were analysed using linear regression, adjusting for gender, age, educational attainment, and occupational skill level. These covariates were also analysed as effect modifiers for the migrant status–job insecurity relationships. Migrant workers, especially those from non-English speaking countries (non-ESC-born), experienced higher job insecurity than Australia-born workers; however, these disparities disappeared after 11+ years post-arrival. The migrant status–job insecurity relationships were modified by educational attainment. Unexpectedly, the disparities in job insecurity between non-ESC-born migrants and Australia-born workers increased with increasing educational attainment, and for those most highly educated, the disparities persisted beyond 11 years post-arrival. Our findings suggested that continuing language skill support and discrimination prevention could facilitate migrant integration into the Australian labour market.
KW - Immigrant
KW - Job stressor
KW - Native workers
KW - Occupational exposure
KW - Overseas-born
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074280002&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph16214159
DO - 10.3390/ijerph16214159
M3 - Article
C2 - 31661926
AN - SCOPUS:85074280002
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 16
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 21
M1 - 4159
ER -
