Author: Manning, Alan; Mazeine, Graham
Description: There is a widespread belief that work is less secure than in the past, that an increasing share of workers are part of the “precariat.” It is hard to find much evidence for this in objective measures of job security, but perhaps subjective measures show different trends. This paper shows that in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, workers feel as secure as they ever have in the past 30 years. This is partly because job insecurity is very cyclical and (pre-COVID) unemployment rates very low, but there is also no clear underlying trend towards increased subjective measures of job insecurity. This conclusion seems robust to controlling for the changing mix of the labor force, and it is true for specific subsets of workers.
Subject headings: Germany; United Kingdom; Job security; Labor supply; Robust control; Security systems; United States
Publication year: 2024
Journal or book title: The Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume: 106
Issue: 3
Pages: 748-761
Find the full text: https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/106/3/748/111185/Subjective-Job-Insecurity-and-the-Rise-of-the
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