Job Insecurity and Wages

David Campbell, Alan A. Carruth, Andrew Peter Dickerson () and Francis Green ()

Studies in Economics from Department of Economics, University of Kent

Abstract: This paperexamines 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.

Keywords: Job Insecurity; Wages; Unemployment; Subjecctive Expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J60 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-11
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