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Job insecurity and wages

Campbell, David, Carruth, Alan, Dickerson, Andrew, Green, Francis (2003) Job insecurity and wages. The Economic Journal, 117 (518). pp. 544-566. ISSN 0013-0133. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02029.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:503)

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Abstract

This article examines whether subjective expectations of unemployment are reliable indicators of the probability of becoming unemployed and investigates their association with wage growth. We find that workers' fears of unemployment are increased by their previous unemployment experience and by the unemployment experiences of a close friend, and are associated with other objective indicators of insecure jobs. We then show that unemployment fear predicts future unemployment, above and beyond observed objective variables. High fears of unemployment are found to be associated with significantly lower levels of wage growth for men, but to have no significant link with wage growth for women.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02029.x
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: C. Hudson
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2007 18:17 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:39 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/503 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Carruth, Alan.

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Dickerson, Andrew.

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Green, Francis.

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