Published February 15, 2017
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Publication
Job satisfaction, insecurity and the Great Recession: The effect of others' unemployment
Contributors
Description
Job security may be considered the most important working condition during an economic recession.
In this paper we use a very rich repeated cross-section dataset on workers' job conditions, together
with regional unemployment information at the activity level, to test whether employees value job
security differently after the recent economic downturn. We use subjective-wellbeing measures of
perceived and actual job insecurity in our assessments. We find that peers' unemployment affected job
satisfaction negatively before the recession, but not afterwards. The economic valuation of job
insecurity increased after the financial crisis when measured subjectively. Objective measures related
to the industry's unemployment rates decreased. Our main conclusions are robust to sample selection
and method of computation. This suggests that increased job insecurity constitutes an important
welfare loss associated with increased unemployment during recessions.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/54222
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/54222