Permanent employment can reduce the risk of premature death by 20 percent. The results of the study indicate that job security in the Swedish labor market needs to improve.
"Precarious employment is a term used to describe jobs with short contracts (e.g. temping), low wages, and a lack of influence and rights, all of which lead to a working life without predictability and security," the researchers, from the Karolinska Institutet who had participated in the research, have defined.
