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dc.contributor.authorLange, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:21:09Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:21:09Z
dc.date.created2013-03-14T20:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationLange, Thomas. 2013. Scarred from the past or afraid of the future? Unemployment and job satisfaction across European labour markets. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 24 (6): pp. 1096-1112.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20783
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09585192.2012.706819
dc.description.abstract

Previous research has shown that both past unemployment and anticipated future unemployment have a detrimental impact on employees' attitudes and behaviours, which may affect organisational performance. Surprisingly, however, very little is known about the relative impact of past unemployment compared with current job insecurity. Although it is possible that both effects operate simultaneously, this paper – focused on employees' job satisfaction and utilising a set of cross-sectional data derived from the European Social Survey 2006–2007 – reports on a strongly pronounced insecurity effect: anticipated unemployment substantially reduces employees' job satisfaction. Interestingly, inclusion of the perceived risk of future unemployment as a separate predictor variable in ordered probit regressions relegates the experience of past unemployment to a statistically insignificant coefficient and thus weakens the ‘scarring’ hypothesis. These results hold true even when several socio-demographic characteristics and proxies for individual personality traits are controlled. Implications for organisations and human resource practitioners and scope for future research endeavours conclude the analysis of the paper.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectunemployment
dc.subjectjob satisfaction
dc.subjectordinal probit regression
dc.subjectjob insecurity
dc.subjectEuropean labour markets
dc.titleScarred from the past or afraid of the future? Unemployment and job satisfaction across European labour markets
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume24
dcterms.source.number6
dcterms.source.startPage1096
dcterms.source.endPage1112
dcterms.source.issn09585192
dcterms.source.titleThe International Journal of Human Resource Management
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