Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Santiago Budria Rodriguez () and Ana Moro-Egido

No 12663, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the paper adopts Deb and Trivedi's (2006) econometric approach. The results show that the negative effect of job insecurity on self-assessed health is exacerbated if the individual is over-indebted. Moreover, the role of over-indebtedness differs between types of debt, with nonmortgage debts causing larger health losses than mortgage debts. Specifically, the results suggest that being over-indebted with non-mortgage debts boosts the negative impact of job insecurity by a factor of three. Thus, concerns about job insecurity should not be decoupled from concerns about increasing household indebtedness, and policy measures intended to improve individual welfare should consider both phenomena together.

Keywords: job insecurity; self-assessed health; debt burdens (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 I14 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2019-10
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Published - published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (4), 872-899.

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