Labor Markets’ Institutional Properties And Distributive Justice In Modern Society: A Comparative Empirical Analysis

Zafirovski, Milan

doi:10.1007/s11205-004-1544-9

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“…It is also important from a practical and theoretical perspective to explore the mediating explanatory mechanisms for the observed relation, as this might inform potential interventions. As noted earlier, as an indicator of societal distributive injustice (Zafirovski, 2005), higher income inequality may threaten one’s object and condition resources (Hobfoll, 2001; ten Brummelhuis, & Bakker, 2012). Although our exploratory examinations of the mediation roles of potential proxy object and condition resources failed to reach significance in both studies, it may be premature to rule these mechanisms out.…”

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“…Indeed, it is the chronic uncertain nature of the duration of the stressor that is argued to partially account for its effect on employee burnout (Westman & Etzion, 1995). Income inequality is an indicator of societal distributive injustice (Zafirovski, 2005). Those living in a context of greater income inequality may perceive that they have access to fewer object and condition resources (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) in order to cope with that chronic stressor.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Income inequality has been conceptualized as a contextual stressor (Wilkinson, 1999; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009) that promotes social and environmental degeneration harmful to health (Daly, Duncan, Kaplan, & Lynch, 1998). Zafirovski (2005) argues that high income inequality is a societal indicator of distributive injustice, a variable that has been proposed to exacerbate the relationship between JI and its various outcomes (Piccoli, De Witte, & Pasini, 2011).…”

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“…First, higher income inequality with greater disparity between the “haves” and the “have nots” within society is indicative of societal distributive injustice (Zafirovski, 2005). Societies with high income disparity tend to have fewer employment protections, an absence of labor standards, shorter duration of unemployment benefits, lower union density, and coverage (Zafirovski, 2005). As such, greater income inequality may inhibit the obtainment of object (i.e., material coping ) resources for those who are faced with the possibility of job loss.…”

Section: Income Inequality: a Contextual Stressormentioning

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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: Country- and state-level income inequality moderates the job insecurity-burnout relationship.

Jiang¹,

Probst

2017

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Despite the prevalence of income inequality in today's society, research on the implications of income inequality for organizational research is scant. This study takes the first step to explore the contextual role of national- and state- level income inequality as a moderator in the relationship between individual-level job insecurity (JI) and burnout. Drawing from conservation of resource (COR) theory, we argue that income inequality at the country-level and state-level threatens one's obtainment of object (i.e., material coping) and condition (i.e., nonmaterial coping) resources, thus serving as an environmental stressor exacerbating one's burnout reactions to JI. The predicted cross-level interaction effect of income inequality was tested in 2 studies. Study 1 consisting of 23,778 individuals nested in 30 countries explored the moderating effect of country-level income inequality on the relationship between individual JI and exhaustion. Study 2 collected data from 402 employees residing in 48 states in the United States, and tested the moderating effect of state-level income inequality on the relationship between JI and burnout (i.e., emotional exhaustion and cynicism). Results of both studies converge to support the exacerbating role of higher-level income inequality on the JI -burnout relationship. Our findings contribute to the literature on psychological health disparities by exploring the contextual role of income inequality as a predictor of differential reactions to JI. (PsycINFO Database Record

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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: Country- and state-level income inequality moderates the job insecurity-burnout relationship.

Jiang¹,

Probst

2017

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…The experience of job insecurity, then, may be less likely to result in stress and decreased well-being. Indeed, Lim (1996) showed that having access to a supportive system can buffer the negative effect of job insecurity on life satisfaction and Jiang and Probst (2017) showed that job insecurity was less likely to result in burnout symptoms in countries with low income inequalitya social context in which people have more access to resources such as employment protection, labor standards, unemployment benefits (Zafirovski, 2005).…”

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Acting Proactively to Manage Job Insecurity: How Worrying About the Future of One’s Job May Obstruct Future-Focused Thinking and Behavior

Bezouw

2021

Front. Psychol.

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An increasing number of people experience insecurity about the future of their job, making it more important than ever to manage this insecurity. While previous research suggests that proactive coping is a promising way to alleviate job insecurity, we suggest that, paradoxically, it may be particularly difficult to act proactively when feeling emotionally distressed about the future of one’s job. Drawing on the principle of resource scarcity and the Conservation of Resources theory, we propose that affective job insecurity ignites a scarcity mindset that inhibits workers’ future focus and cognitive functioning, thereby undermining proactive career behavior. Additionally, we examine whether income adequacy can compensate for these negative consequences of job insecurity. Results of a three-wave survey study among 108 self-employed professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that initial affective job insecurity was negatively related to cognitive functioning but unrelated to future focus. Yet, the latter relationship was moderated by income adequacy: affective job insecurity was positively related to future focus when participants reported high income adequacy. In turn, future focus was positively related to proactive career behavior, which was subsequently related to lower cognitive job insecurity. Thus, while replicating the finding that workers can proactively manage their cognitive job insecurity, we also showed that initial affective job insecurity may obstruct people’s cognitive functioning. We discuss how our results signal a Matthew effect, in which job insecure people with sufficient means are able to look ahead and proactively build resources to change their career, while job insecure people with insufficient means may fall behind.

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Societal Income Inequality and Coping with Work-Related Economic Stressors: A Resource Perspective

Jiang

Probst

2019

The Social Psychology of Inequality

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Labor Markets’ Institutional Properties And Distributive Justice In Modern Society: A Comparative Empirical Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: Country- and state-level income inequality moderates the job insecurity-burnout relationship.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: Country- and state-level income inequality moderates the job insecurity-burnout relationship.

Acting Proactively to Manage Job Insecurity: How Worrying About the Future of One’s Job May Obstruct Future-Focused Thinking and Behavior

Societal Income Inequality and Coping with Work-Related Economic Stressors: A Resource Perspective

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