Pasi Pyöriä
I am a university lecturer in sociology focusing on working life and labour market studies. My research interests include job quality and working conditions, precarious work, work careers, telework, and knowledge work. I have worked at Tampere University since 1997.
Address: Tampere, Finland
Address: Tampere, Finland
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This article examines the work careers of Finnish private-sector employees aged between 30 and 50 years old in the 2007–2015 period, i.e. immediately before and after the 2008 financial crisis. Our key interest was in studying how individual and family antecedents as well as company-level measures – operating profit in particular – were associated with career stability. We used the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data (FLEED-FOLK) and the Financial Statement Data Panel by Statistics Finland. First, we studied the employees’ work careers using trajectory analysis, and second, we applied multinomial regression analysis to study connections between individual-, family-, and company-level variables and the employees’ career trajectory groups. In the analysis, six diverse career trajectories were found. Even though the financial crisis took place during the follow-up period, the majority (79%) of private-sector employees had either a stable or stabilising work career. The key independent variables connected with more fragmented career trajectories were becoming a mother, the absence of a stable marital status, and the employer’s less stable operating profit. For the majority, however, the results indicate the stability of work careers even in the context of the financial crisis and economic downturn after 2008. The findings concern those who were already employed before the crisis.
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-359-006-9
https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3806
Objectives: Previous studies mainly based on the public sector show that organizational justice is associated with a lower risk of sickness absence (SA). The purpose of this study is to analyze this association with multi-cohort data from different employment sectors and to discover whether the association varies according to the general economic context or financial situation of the workplace.
Methods: Cross-sectional Finnish Quality of Work Life surveys from 1997, 2003, and 2008 were combined with data on long-term SA obtained from the Finnish Social Security Institution. The associations between SA periods in the three years following each survey and perceived relational justice, general economic context, and the perceived financial situation of the workplace were analyzed with negative binomial regression.
Results: Higher level of relational justice was statistically significantly associated with lower rate of SA after controlling for baseline health, but not after controlling for job control and job demands. An interaction was found with relational justice and the financial situation of the workplace. Higher level of relational justice was related to a lower risk of SA when the financial situation of the workplace was stable, but there was a higher risk of SA when the financial situation was insecure.
Conclusions: The association between relational justice and a lower risk of SA is in line with previous studies when the financial situation of the workplace is stable. In unstable economic conditions, employees may have the courage to take sick leave when they are ill if they are fairly treated by their supervisor.
English abstract: This article examines the working lives of young, under-30-year-old wage earners over a period of three decades. The research question is how the employment rates (measured as the average number of working months) of 15–30-year-old wage earners have changed from the 1980s to the 2010s compared to those of older age groups. The study is based on data from the Finnish Quality of Work Life Surveys in 1984, 1990, 1997, 2003 and 2008 and on related register follow-ups. As of each baseline year, the same age groups are monitored for three subsequent years. The results of this study show that, when measured in the number of working months, the labour market position of 15–30-year-old wage earners has stabilised throughout the 2000s. In other words, the difference in working months cannot be explained by age when the central individual and structural background facts have been standardized. In fact, compared to the average number of working months of all wage earners, the relative position of young wage earners has even improved during the follow-up period from 2008–2011, despite the financial crisis.