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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published online on March 10, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp003
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: "Transforming Work special issue" [View the issue table of contents]

Subjective employment insecurity around the world

Francis Green

Department of Economics, University of Kent, Keynes College, Canterbury CT2 7NP

g.f.green{at}kent.ac.uk


  Abstract

I consider the concept of employment insecurity (EI) and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea change in EI. Workers in transitional economies and developing economies worried the most about insecurity. Insecurity tended to be greater for women, for less-educated and for older workers. However, these patterns vary across country groups, in ways that are only sometimes explicable in terms of their known institutional characteristics. In general, subjective EI tracks the unemployment rate.

Keywords: precarious work, job insecurity, gender, job quality, unemployment

Received on October 20, 2008. Accepted on January 14, 2009.

JEL Classifications:: J6, J16


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