Temporary employment, job insecurity and their extraorganizational outcomes

Edoardo Lozza, Chiara Libreri and Albino Claudio Bosio

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2013, vol. 34, issue 1, 89-105

Abstract: Research on job insecurity has traditionally focused on organizational consequences. The present study explores potential extraorganizational outcomes (employees’ consumption and life projects) of job insecurity in terms of both subjective perception and objective condition. Results are based on the secondary analysis of two large data sets: a tracking study with representative samples and a survey, both conducted on Italian employees. The findings suggest that job insecurity (especially the subjective perception, rather than the objective condition) may be associated with sacrifices of daily consumption (e.g. buying groceries, apparel, or entertainment) and life projects (e.g. buying a home, marrying, or having children).

Keywords: Consumption; job insecurity; temporary employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X12436617

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