Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health ? A Causal Approach for Europe

Eve Caroli and Mathilde Godard ()
Additional contact information
Mathilde Godard: CREST

No 2013-13, Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity - i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss - on health in a sample of 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where employment is strongly protected by the law, and relatively more so if employed in industries where employment protection legislation is more binding, i.e. in industries with a higher natural rate of dismissals. Using cross-country data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey, we show that when the potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. After controlling for endogeneity, the health-damaging effect of job insecurity is confirmed for a subgroup of health outcomes, namely self-rated health, being sick in the past 12 months, suffering from skin problems, headaches or eyestrain and stomach ache. As for other health variables, the impact of job insecurity appears to be insignificant at conventional

Keywords: Job insecurity; Health; Instrumental Variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2013-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-hea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://crest.science/RePEc/wpstorage/2013-13.pdf Crest working paper version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Does job insecurity deteriorate health? A causal approach for Europe (2014)
Working Paper: Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe (2014)
Working Paper: Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe (2014)
Working Paper: Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crs:wpaper:2013-13

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Secretariat General () and Murielle Jules Maintainer-Email : murielle.jules@ensae.Fr.