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  1. Seeking shelter in times of crisis?
    unemployment, perceived job insecurity and trade union membership
    Author: Chadi, Adrian; Goerke, Laszlo
    Published: March 2023
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers... more

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    Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers individually decide on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage individuals to join a union. Firm-level workforce reductions serve as the first trigger of perceived job insecurity. Regional unemployment rates represent a second source of exogenous variation. Third, we propose a novel identification approach based on plant-closure-induced job losses of other workers in the same region. In each case, we exploit the longitudinal nature of the data to analyse the implications of changes in labour market conditions for changes in union membership using an instrumental-variable approach. We consistently find that perceived job insecurity, as triggered by labour market turmoil, increases the likelihood of individual union membership. Analysing data on media coverage about downsizing in a complementary investigation, we add further evidence to the notion of trade unions as beneficiaries of labour market crises. Finally, we consider workers who lose their jobs and find no evidence of adverse effects on union membership among those directly affected by the labour market situation.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/272662
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 16035
    Subjects: job security; German Socio-Economic Panel; workforce reduction; trade union membership; regional labour markets; media coverage
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 74 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Leaving home with a partner
    Author: Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; Maeso-Fernandez, Francisco
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  CEMFI, Madrid

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: CEMFI working paper ; 1503
    Subjects: Moving out; employment; assortative mating; job security
    Scope: Online-Ressource (42 S.)
  3. People versus machines
    the impact of being in an automatable job on Australian worker's mental health and life satisfaction
    Author: Lordan, Grace; Stringer, Eliza-Jane
    Published: March 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This study explores the effect on mental health and life satisfaction of working in an automatable job. We utilise an Australian panel dataset (HILDA), and estimate models that include individual fixed effects, to estimate the association between... more

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    This study explores the effect on mental health and life satisfaction of working in an automatable job. We utilise an Australian panel dataset (HILDA), and estimate models that include individual fixed effects, to estimate the association between automatable work and proxies of wellbeing. Overall, we find evidence that automatable work has a small, detrimental impact on the mental health and life satisfaction of workers within some industries, particularly those with higher levels of job automation risk, such as manufacturing. Furthermore, we find no strong trends to suggest that any particular demographic group is disproportionately impacted across industries. These findings are robust to a variety of specifications. We also find evidence of adaptation to these effects after one-year tenure on the job, indicating a limited role for firm policy.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/263398
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15182
    Subjects: automation; life satisfaction; mental health; job security
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 101 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
    Author: Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; Casanova Ferrando, Jorge; Cingano, Federico; Falco, Paolo; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jansen, Marcel; Martins, Pedro S.; Melo, António; Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin
    Published: April 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the... more

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    We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable cross-country evidence in the literature. Controlling for productivity and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany, 0.22% in France, 0.25% in Portugal and 0.29% in Denmark. Regarding job security, we find that an increase in labour market concentration by 10% reduces the probability of being hired on a permanent contract by 0.46% in France, 0.51% in Germany and 2.34% in Portugal. While not affecting this probability in Italy and Spain, labour market concentration significantly reduces the probability of being converted to a permanent contract once hired on a temporary one. Our results suggest that considering only the effect of labour market concentration on wages underestimates its overall impact on job quality and hence the resulting welfare loss for workers.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/263447
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15231
    Subjects: labour market concentration; monopsony; wages; job security
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 55 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
    Author: Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; Casanova Ferrando, Jorge; Cingano, Federico; Falco, Paolo; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jansen, Marcel; Martins, Pedro S.; Melo, António; Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin
    Published: abril de 2022
    Publisher:  [FEDEA], [Madrid]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Documento de trabajo / Fedea ; 2022, 04
    Subjects: labour market concentration; monopsony; wages; job security
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 58 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. Subjective job insecurity and the rise of the precariat: evidence from the UK, Germany and the United States
    Author: Manning, Alan; Mazeine, Graham
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: CEP discussion paper ; no 1712 (August 2020)
    Subjects: job security; precariat
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 46 Seiten), Illustrationen
  7. Job security and liquid wealth
    Author: Figueiredo, Ana; Marie, Olivier; Markiewicz, Agnieszka
    Published: January 2024
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study changes in job security after displacement and exploit eligibility rules for lump-sum payments in the Netherlands to investigate the role of liquid wealth. Within five years of job loss, the likelihood of being in permanent employment... more

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    We study changes in job security after displacement and exploit eligibility rules for lump-sum payments in the Netherlands to investigate the role of liquid wealth. Within five years of job loss, the likelihood of being in permanent employment remains 12% lower for displaced workers. Those eligible to a lump-sum transfer experience a significantly smaller negative shock to job security. This effect is driven by workers with low liquid wealth, pointing to liquidity constraints as an important mechanism linking unemployment and job security. Finally, we estimate that losses in job security can explain a fifth of the wage cost associated with job displacement.

     
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    hdl: 10419/295767
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 16744
    Subjects: job loss; liquid and illiquid wealth; job security; severance pay; The Netherlands
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 41 Seiten), Illustrationen