The paper analyses the change of job stability and its determinants in the course of time by presenting some empirical evidence from Germany. Drawing upon event history data from the German Federal Labour Office insurance accounts and employing Cox Proportional Hazard Rate Models, we test six...

Job insecurity causes far reaching negative outcomes. The fear of job loss damages the health of employees and reduces the productivity of firms. Thus, job insecurity should result in increasing social costs. Analyzing representative data from 17 European countries, this paper investigates self...

In ganz Europa sind die Menschen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten unter anderem mit einer zunehmenden Globalisierung der Finanzmärkte, dem Trend einer verstärkten Dienstleistungsproduktion und Individualisierungstendenzen konfrontiert gewesen. Trotz dieser Gemeinsamkeit ist allerdings nicht von...

Using data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper investigates older workers’ perceptions of job security in eleven countries. We describe cross-national patterns and estimate multilevel models to analyse individual and societal determinants of...