Area-Level Unemployment and Perceived Job Insecurity: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey Conducted in the Australian Working-Age Population

Abstract

UNLABELLED: RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Job insecurity, the subjective individual anticipation of involuntary job loss, negatively affects employees' health and their engagement. Although the relationship between job insecurity and health has been extensively studied, job insecurity as an 'exposure' has received far less attention, with little known about the upstream determinants of job insecurity in particular. This research sought to identify the relationship between self-rated job insecurity and area-level unemployment using a longitudinal, nationally representative study of Australian households. METHODS: Mixed-effect multi-level regression models were used to assess the relationship between..