 Does job insecurity deteriorate health?Eve Caroli and Mathilde Godard PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – that is, the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach on the basis of the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where employment is strongly protected by the law and more so if employed in industries where employment protection legislation is more binding; that is, in induastries 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. When tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an instrumental variable model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health-damaging effect of job insecurity is confirmed for a limited subgroup of health outcomes; namely, suffering from headaches or eyestrain and skin problems. As for other health variables, the impact of job insecurity appears to be insignificant at conventional levels. Keywords: job insecurity; health; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Health Economics, 2016, 25 (2), pp.131-147. ⟨10.1002/hec.3122⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-01311366 DOI: 10.1002/hec.3122 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL |
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