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Does job insecurity deteriorate health?

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Date
2016
Dewey
Economie du travail
Sujet
Job insecurity; Instrumental Variables; Health; I.I1.I10; J.J6.J60
JEL code
J.J6.J63; I.I1.I19
Journal issue
Health Economics
Volume
25
Number
2
Publication date
2016
Article pages
131–147
Publisher
Wiley
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.3122
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/13646
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Caroli, Eve
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Godard, Mathilde
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Abstract (EN)
This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where employment is strongly protected by the law, and relatively more so if employed in industries where employment protection legislation is more binding, i.e. in industries with a higher natural rate of dismissals. Using cross-country data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey, we show that when the potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health-damaging effect of job insecurity is confirmed for a limited subgroup of health outcomes, namely suffering from headaches or eyestrain and skin problems. As for other health variables, the impact of job insecurity appears to be insignificant at conventional levels.

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