Do Job Security Guarantees Work?

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora (claudio.lucifora@unicatt.it)

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of jobsecurity. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace EmployeeRelations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of jobinsecurity. This finding is robust to endogenous selection of job security guarantees byemployers engaging in organisational change and workforce reductions. Furthermore, thereis no evidence that increased job security through job guarantees results in greater workintensification, stress, or lower job satisfaction.

Keywords: Job insecurity; job guarantees; linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J32 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-11
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