How job flexibility impacts health care use
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
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Job Flexibility And Health
Many recent policy efforts have focused on workplace flexibility.
Laws addressing paid sick leave have become more prevalent in the past
decade and temporary emergency paid sick leave was a key part of the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021-the most significant expansion of
paid sick leave in US history.
Thomas Hegland and Terceira Berdahl investigate the role of job
flexibility
-including
both its informal aspects and access to paid sick leave-in health care
access and use.
Using data from 2017-19, the authors find, consistent with prior
studies, that receiving paid sick leave as an employee benefit was
positively associated with health care access and use.
The authors also indicate in their findings that Black and Hispanic
workers, as well as workers with low-wage jobs, had less job flexibility
and less access to paid sick leave.
"Variations in job characteristics may be mechanisms generating
disparities in health care access and use," they add.
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