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Predictors of Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and Retirement Savings Among NYC’s Immigrant Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Drivers
- Source :
- Journal of Community Health
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Taxi and for-hire vehicle (FHV) drivers are a predominantly immigrant population facing a range of occupational stressors, including lack of workplace benefits and increasing financial strain from tumultuous industry changes and now COVID-19’s devastating impact. Bilingual research staff surveyed 422 New York City taxi/FHV drivers using a stratified sampling approach in driver-frequented locations to examine drivers’ health and financial planning behaviors for the first time. Drivers lacked health insurance at double the NYC rate (20% vs. 10%). Life insurance and retirement savings rates were lower than U.S. averages (20% vs. 60%, 25% vs. 58%, respectively). Vehicle ownership was a significant predictor of health insurance, life insurance, and retirement savings. Compared to South Asian drivers, Sub-Saharan African drivers were significantly less likely to have health insurance and North African, and Middle Eastern drivers were significantly less likely to have retirement savings. Although most drivers indicated the importance of insurance and benefits
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Automobile Driving
Health (social science)
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Immigration
Emigrants and Immigrants
Financial plan
Insurance Coverage
Social determinants of health
03 medical and health sciences
Health insurance
0302 clinical medicine
Life insurance
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
media_common
Retirement
Original Paper
Insurance, Health
030505 public health
SARS-CoV-2
Stressor
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Middle Aged
Taxi drivers
Health equity
Stratified sampling
Insurance, Life
Socioeconomic Factors
Financial literacy
Female
New York City
Demographic economics
Business
Health disparities
0305 other medical science
human activities
Immigrant
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733610 and 00945145
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....63f92810751792e9b6861f5b0d49e36d