REVIEW PAPER
The type of employment contract and employees’ health and occupational functioning – The review of studies
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Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy / Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute,Warszawa, Poland
(Zakład Ergonomii, Pracownia Psychologii Społecznej / Ergonomics Department, Laboratory of Social Psychology)
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Dorota Żołnierczyk-Zreda
Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Zakład Ergonomii, Pracownia Psychologii Społecznej, ul. Czerniakowska 16, 00-801 Warszawa
Med Pr Work Health Saf. 2015;66(4):565-73
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From over 2 decades intensive research concerning temporary workers has been carried out in Europe and outside Europe. Despite
having the highest rate of temporary workers in Europe, the studies on this topic are very rare in Poland. The aim of the study
was to review the existing research on the relations between temporary work and employees’ health and occupational functioning.
The main conclusion from this review is that there is a significant inconsistency between the results of the studies included in this
review due to such factors as heterogeneity of the group “temporary workers,” cultural and generational differences between temporary
workers, as well as different economic context in which those studies had been carried out. The main recommendations for
the future research is thus to take into account the personal preferences for performing temporary work and to use more complex
study design. Med Pr 2015;66(4):565–573