Job Security and Job Protection

By Andrew E. Clark, F. Postel-Vinay. Social Science Research Network, 2005

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We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance Benefit (UIB) generosity on the other. We find that, after controlling for selection into job types, workers feel most secure in permanent public sector jobs, least secure in temporary jobs, with permanent private sector jobs occupying an intermediate position. We also find that perceived job security in both permanent private and temporary jobs is positively correlated with UIB generosity, while the relationship with EPL strictness is negative: workers feel less secure in countries where jobs are more protected. These correlations are absent for permanent public jobs, suggesting that such jobs are perceived to be by and large insulated from labor market fluctuations.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity (2008, background): “It is however unlikely that the proportion of good- and bad-prospects labour market participants will be unaffected by aggregate developments: rising unemployment will surely push some employees into feeling insecure, for example (as in Clark and Postel-Vinay, 2008).”
Institutions versus market forces: Explaining the employment insecurity of European individuals during (the beginning of) the financial crisis (2011, background): “…and duration, can increase perceived employment insecurity by increasing an individual’s fear of the repercussions of unemployment and prolonged job loss (Anderson and Pontusson, 2007; Clark and Postel-Vinay, 2009; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004; Pacelli et al., 2008).”
Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic? (2012, background): “[9] Clark, Andrew and Fabien Postel-Vinay (2009), Job Security and Job Protection, Oxford Economic Papers, 61(2): 207-239.”
Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe (2015, background): “…not only by individual and occupational characteristics such as sex, age, family responsibilities, occupation, public- versus private-sector employment, and the size of organization (Clark & Postel-Vinay, 2009) but also by wider economic factors such as the unemployment levels (Green, 2009).”
Job Security and Employee Well-Being: Evidence from Matched Survey and Register Data (2011, background): “For example, Clark and Postel-Vinay (2009) directly investigate the effect of EPL and unemployment insurance benefits on satisfaction with job security for a number of European countries using ECHP.”
The relationship between job insecurity and accident under-reporting: A test in two countries (2013, result): “…in industry-level labour markets is predictive of later dissatisfaction with one’s job insecurity, although this may be more true for private sector jobs compared to public sector jobs, which research suggests are more insulated from such labour market fluctuations (Clark & Postel-Vinay, 2009).”
Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children (2010, neutral): “This is the case, for example, with the question in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) on how satisfied respondents are with their job in terms of job security (Deloffre and Rioux, 2003; Clark and Postel-Vinay, 2005).”
Are temporary jobs a port of entry into permanent employment (2011, background): “…all over Europe, temporary jobs are often associated with poorer labour conditions with respect to standard employment: lower wages, lower training, higher job insecurity, and lower protection from social security (e.g., Booth et al., 2002; Berton et al., 2009; Clark and Postel-Vinay, 2009).”
Measuring Precarious Employment: A Proposal for Two Indicators of Precarious Employment Based on Set-Theory and Tested with Dutch Labor Market-Data (2013, neutral): “However, insecurity might refer to (2) the insecurity of whether an individual will be dismissed from his/her job, i.e., defining job insecurity as the risk of job-loss (Böckerman 2004; Clark and Postel-Vinay 2005).”