Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey

doi:10.1186/2193-9020-1-6

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 2 Percentages of workers who fear of losing their jobs and not finding a new one (percentage of workers choosing values “4” or “5” when answering the fear questions), by subgroups of workers, RLMS, 1994-1998 and 2000-2009

From: Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

		Fear of losing		Fear of not finding
		1994-1998	2000-2009	1994-1998	2000-2009
Age	15-29	55.04	47.47	51.4	31.1
	30-45	64.8	55.15	63.15	42.05
	46-59	65.12	58.46	70.95	59.13
	60-72	49.69	46.86	73.66	66.49
Gender	Female	58.06	55.05	70.93	49.84
Gender	Male	65.28	51.72	54.09	39.29
Education level	Lower than secondary	64.93	54.28	71.09	49.68
	Secondary	63.39	53.84	64.86	46.12
	Vocational	64.57	54.54	63.31	42.16
	Tertiary	58.76	52.72	59.52	45.18
Married	Yes	62.06	54.11	62.97	45.61
Married	No	60.65	51.88	62.01	43.21
State ownership	Yes	62.08	53.67	64.6	48.82
State ownership	No	60.35	54.04	58.11	41.51
Firm size	< 51 employees	61.48	52.57	62.78	43.84
	51-100	60.26	52.72	61.27	42.97
	101-200	62.69	52.57	64.44	45.67
	201-1000	60.68	56.07	64.08	48.32
	>1000 employees	62.54	54.97	63.55	44.53
Informal employment	Yes	55.81	44.88	54.12	27.95
Informal employment	No	69.29	54.73	68.48	45.7
Having subordinates	Yes	57.04	50.65	56.19	42.03
Having subordinates	No	63.13	54.28	64.75	45.78
Having second job	Yes	44.91	41.87	41.64	30.4
Having second job	No	62.53	54.06	63.78	45.7
Having wage arrears	Yes	65.23	54.75	67.68	51.28
Having wage arrears	No	58.61	53.79	57.68	43.92
Receiving pension	Yes	56.03	51.65	73.8	62.11
Receiving pension	No	62.51	53.77	61.27	42.32
Rural settlement	Yes	66.07	59.69	73.34	59.09
Rural settlement	No	60.09	51.2	58.7	39.81
Moscow or St. Petersburg	Yes	50.31	41.11	47.3	35.32
Moscow or St. Petersburg	No	62.97	55.33	64.44	46.47
Unemployment experience	Yes	66.99	53.62	65.30	45.47
Unemployment experience	No	.63.63	52.92	63.25	42.67
Unemployed in previous year	Yes	69.10.	52.65	64.14.	41.48
Unemployed in previous year	No	.63.62	.53.56	63.31	45.22
The level of regional unemployment	u<p25*	58.71	47.67	58.44	38.83
	p25<u<p50	58.71	55.54	60.51	45.2
	p50<u<p75	61.28	55.64	63.75	50.12
	p75<u	69.22	56.71	68.86	47.5
The level of specific unemployment	su<p25	64.24	50.38	68.12	42.42
	p25<su<p50	60.28	52.66	62.28	44.24
	p50<su<p75	59.07	55.09	60.49	46.14
	su>p75	63.54	54.99	61.17	46.37
The level of specific non-employment	sne<p25	61.76	52.83	63	44.93
	p25<sne<p50	64.16	54.99	64.05	46.21
	p50<sne<p75	59.47	53.25	58.15	42.95
	sne>p75	62.23	53.2	65.93	46.06

*p25, p50, p75 are values for the 25%, 50%, and 75% percentiles of the regional unemployment distribution, respectively.

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