What is it about?
Little is known about how Self Employed (SE) workers are supported when they are unable to work due to illness, injury, and disability. Our paper critically reviews peer-reviewed literature focusing on advanced economies to understand how SE’d workers navigate, experience, or manage their injuries and illness when unable to work. We conducted a systematic search and screening, identifying 18 relevant articles that we critically examined and synthesized.
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Why is it important?
We found the work and health needs of different kinds of SE’d workers, taking into consideration class, gender, sector, and gig workers are not distinguished. Many articles noted poor social security system supports. Drawing on a social justice lens, we argue that SE’d workers make significant economic contributions, and are deserving of support from social security systems when ill or injured.
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this is food for thought for the policymakers - a large population of self-employed workers needs to be better protected, but how? The answer is complicated due to the precarious labor market is evolving day by day.it is time to think if we should underscore social insurance or private insurance, how does redistributive justice matter?
Tauhid Hossain Khan
School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
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This page is a summary of: Self-employment, work and health: A critical narrative review, WORK A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, November 2021, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/wor-213614.
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