Is any job better than no job at all? Studying the relations between employment types, unemployment and subjective health in Belgium

Table 2 Distribution of cluster probabilities over employment conditions indicators

	Overall prevalence	Standard jobs	Instrumental jobs	Precarious jobs	Portfolio jobs
Cluster size		0.3815	0.3267	0.1636	0.1281
Type of employment contract
Permanent	0.9060	0.9582	0.9044	0.7269	0.9807
Temporary	0.0940	0.0418	0.0956	0.2731	0.0193
Average monthly net income
Less than €1000	0.0955	0.0421	0.0004	0.4821	0.0088
€1000 - €1499	0.3278	0.2688	0.4284	0.5012	0.0324
€1500 - €2499	0.4747	0.5841	0.5529	0.0165	0.5279
€2500 or more	0.1020	0.1050	0.0183	0.0002	0.4309
Non-wage benefits
0	0.2972	0.0862	0.4566	0.6326	0.0944
1	0.2391	0.1877	0.3262	0.2419	0.1656
2	0.2115	0.3005	0.1601	0.0940	0.2271
3 or more	0.2522	0.4257	0.0571	0.0316	0.5129
Flexible working times for personal reasons
No	0.4178	0.3141	0.5973	0.4309	0.2544
Yes	0.5822	0.6859	0.4027	0.5691	0.7456
Exceptional working times
No	0.7715	0.7744	0.8106	0.7443	0.6978
Yes	0.2285	0.2256	0.1894	0.2557	0.3022
Involuntary part-time employment
FT & voluntary PT	0.9462	0.9946	0.9866	0.7098	1.0000
Involuntary PT	0.0538	0.0054	0.0134	0.2902	0.0000
Long working hours
40 h or less	0.8081	0.9392	0.8620	0.9890	0.0469
40 h – 48 h	0.0942	0.0606	0.0657	0.0067	0.3791
More than 48 h	0.0978	0.0002	0.0723	0.0043	0.5741
Irregular working times
No	0.9454	0.9547	0.9511	0.9450	0.9036
Yes	0.0546	0.0453	0.0489	0.0550	0.0964
Training opportunities
No	0.3504	0.0944	0.5582	0.6977	0.1414
Yes	0.6496	0.9056	0.4418	0.3023	0.8586

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