Non-standard Forms of Employment as Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities

Dear Colleagues,

Non-standard forms of employment, defined as employment arrangements that differ from standard employment, have increased in recent years. Some examples of non-standard forms of employment include temporary employment, part-time and on-call work, multiparty employment relationships (e.g., temporary agency work), dependent self-employment, and home-based and remote work. While such forms of employment have allowed more workers to integrate into the labour market, they could pose considerable challenges for the employment quality, occupational safety and health regulations, work environment, and health and well-being of workers.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to the following:

• Trends in non-standard forms of employment and related health outcomes;
• Understudied non-standard forms employment, such as digital labour platform work, dependent self-employment, and remote or home-based work and their relationship with health and well-being;
• Challenges posed by non-standard forms of employment in the application of labour and occupational safety and health law;
• Drivers of non-standard forms of employment and their relationship with health and well-being;
• Mechanisms through which non-standard forms of employment affect health;
• Differential health effects of non-standard forms of employment according to axes of inequality such as gender, age, education, social class, ethnicity, or immigration status;
• Long-term and cumulative effects on workers of non-standard forms of employment; differences and similarities of non-standard forms of employment based on occupation, sector, and geographical location;
• Interventions, regulations, and policies aimed at improving the employment security, income adequacy, and occupational safety and health of workers in non-standard employment arrangements.

Dr. Nuria Matilla-Santander
Dr. Virginia Gunn
Dr. Bertina Kreshpaj
Guest Editors

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