Employment insecurity of European individuals during the financial crisis: a multi-level approach

Abstract: The concept of Flexicurity has been receiving much attention as the European social model. One of the most important concepts within the flexicurity approach is employment security, the security of having secure and continuous employment career, which may entail changing employers and jobs. How do European individuals subjectively perceive their employment security? In addition, which individual characteristics can explain for feeling employment insecurity? Are there differences found across countries, and why is this the case? In this paper, we examine the various individual as well as national level characteristics that can explain individuals' perception of their employment security. To do this we use a multi-level model, where contextual effects are taken into account and individuals are considered to be embedded in countries. The data used for analysis is the 4th wave of the European Social Survey for 22 countries for the year 2008/2009. We find that various individual level c

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 42 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe ; Bd. REC-WP 14/2010

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Edinburgh
(when)
2010
Creator
Chung, Heejung
Oorschot, Wim van
Contributor
University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-197964
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Chung, Heejung
  • Oorschot, Wim van
  • University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)

Time of origin

  • 2010

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