Precarious employment and functional limitations: a cross-sectional analysis for the Mexican population

This study aims to analyze the relationship between precarious employment and the presence and number of functional limitations controlled by sociodemographic variables based on data from the 2018 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey. This is a population-based cross-sectional study using the linear hurdle model adjusted by robust standard error estimates. A count variable was constructed to measure the number of functional limitations of each person, while the main independent variable is a summative index that classifies unsafety in the current job into four items. The results show that the level of unsafe labor conditions has significant associations with the probability of having at least one functional limitation and also with the increase in the number of functional limitations, and this association is still maintained with the control for theoretically relevant variables such as gender, age and marital status.

Keywords:
Precarious Employment; Statistical Models; Sociodemographic Factors