Workforce reduction, subjective job insecurity, and mental health

Reichert, Arndt; Tauchmann, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2016.10.018

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“…Ignoring reverse causality and time‐varying unobserved heterogeneity leads to an underestimation of true effects. Similar results appear elsewhere in the literature, but for specific insecurity items not considering, for example, the contribution of employability insecurity (Caroli & Godard, ; Reichert & Tauchmann, ).…”

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“…In such case, effects for employment insecurity would refer to individuals for whom workforce change is a key determinant for employment insecurity. They may not be representative of the whole population of Danish employees and more vulnerable to employment insecurity compared to others, but they may be a relevant group for policy makers (Reichert & Tauchmann, ).…”

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“…Caroli and Godard () look only at average workforce negative changes, computed at the industry level. Reichert and Tauchmann () use a staff reduction dummy, which only considers whether the sign of the change is positive (or zero) versus negative. We consider both the sign (workforce stability or increase vs. reduction) and the size (big vs. small) of the change.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Using a panel of German workers and FE models, Reichert and Tauchmann () find, first, that objective job insecurity (self‐reported staff reduction at the firm level) negatively affects mental health and, second, that objective insecurity has a significant impact on subjective job insecurity. The ratio between the two effects is the IV estimate of perceived job insecurity on health, with objective insecurity used as instrument for job worries.…”

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Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark

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2017

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2017

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“…From the perspective of individual workers, the welfare implications are not that clear-cut. On the one hand, job security is generally regarded as valuable to workers (Reichert and Tauchmann, 2017), i.e. EPL would have a positive impact on worker welfare.…”

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Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences

2019

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We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change across the EU. In addition, we identify potential explanations for the observed crosscountry variation. Our results show that on average, 3% of European workers change their occupation per year, and that the extent of occupational mobility differs strongly by country. Individual characteristics play an important role for person-specific occupational mobility, but have little explanatory power for differences between countries. Occupational mobility is strongly associated with earnings mobility, and occupation movers are more likely than job movers to experience a downward rather than an upward earnings transition; by contrast, changing occupation voluntarily is more often followed by an upward wage transition. As opposed to composition effects, labour-market institutions, especially employment protection legislation, seem to play an important role for explaining crosscountry differences in occupational mobility.

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The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health

Lepinteur

2021

Health Economics

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Is workers' health more sensitive to losses than gains in job security? While loss aversion, whereby losses loom larger than gains, is typically examined in relation to decisions about anticipated outcomes, I first show using a large sample of workers from the European Household Community Panel and value-added models that losses in job security have a larger effect on health than equivalent job security gains. Second, I address endogeneity issues using the 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax as a quasi-natural experiment. It allows evaluating separately the causal impact of exogenous gains and losses in job security on workers' health. Difference-in-differences estimation results confirm that lower job security generates significant and robust losses in self-assessed health. Meanwhile a greater feeling of job security does not translate into a higher level of self-assessed health. These results are in line with the predictions of the model linking job security to health under the hypothesis of loss aversion built in this paper. This article also demonstrates that losses in health induced by lower job security are not transitory.

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Workforce reduction, subjective job insecurity, and mental health

Cited by 55 publications

References 41 publications

Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark

Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark

Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences

The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health

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