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 4 Factors influencing the fear of losing a job, RLMS, 1994-2009, oprobit

From: Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Dependent variable: fear of losing a job (1-min., 5-max)	1994-1998			2000-2009
Dependent variable: fear of losing a job (1-min., 5-max)	RU	SU	SNE	RU	SU	SNE
Female	-0.291***	-0.295***	-0.320***	0.155***	0.154***	0.100***
	(0.032)	(0.033)	(0.070)	(0.025)	(0.026)	(0.031)
Age (years)	0.072***	0.069***	0.072***	0.048***	0.047***	0.048***
	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Age squared	-0.001***	-0.001***	-0.001***	-0.001***	-0.001***	-0.001***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Receiving pension	-0.107**	-0.098*	-0.108**	-0.089***	-0.092***	-0.086**
	(0.053)	(0.054)	(0.053)	(0.033)	(0.034)	(0.033)
Education level: secondary (reference category: below secondary)	-0.101**	-0.064	-0.100**	-0.041	-0.040	-0.043
	(0.048)	(0.048)	(0.048)	(0.030)	(0.031)	(0.030)
Vocational	0.007	0.057	0.033	-0.028	-0.036	-0.150***
	(0.041)	(0.045)	(0.061)	(0.029)	(0.030)	(0.047)
Tertiary	-0.116**	-0.063	-0.023	-0.043	-0.068*	-0.329***
	(0.046)	(0.052)	(0.197)	(0.035)	(0.041)	(0.110)
Tenure (years)	0.006**	0.005*	0.006**	0.009***	0.010***	0.010***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Tenure squared	-0.000*	-0.000	-0.000*	-0.000*	-0.000**	-0.000**
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Married	-0.051	-0.051	-0.051	-0.031*	-0.026	-0.030*
	(0.044)	(0.045)	(0.044)	(0.018)	(0.019)	(0.018)
Firm size: < 50 employees (reference category: >1000 employees)	-0.070	-0.068	-0.071*	-0.017	-0.019	-0.017
	(0.043)	(0.042)	(0.042)	(0.022)	(0.022)	(0.022)
51-100 employees	-0.114**	-0.123***	-0.115**	0.007	-0.002	0.005
	(0.047)	(0.047)	(0.046)	(0.026)	(0.025)	(0.025)
101-200 employees	-0.021	-0.039	-0.019	0.075***	0.070***	0.072***
	(0.056)	(0.057)	(0.055)	(0.024)	(0.023)	(0.024)
201-1000 employees	-0.046	-0.052	-0.045	0.089***	0.080***	0.089***
	(0.039)	(0.038)	(0.039)	(0.023)	(0.023)	(0.023)
State ownership	0.013	0.020	0.012	-0.066**	-0.063**	-0.064**
	(0.033)	(0.034)	(0.033)	(0.027)	(0.027)	(0.027)
Having subordinates	-0.079***	-0.070***	-0.078***	-0.059***	-0.060***	-0.060***
	(0.028)	(0.026)	(0.028)	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.017)
Second job	-0.363***	-0.368***	-0.363***	-0.283***	-0.291***	-0.284***
	(0.050)	(0.051)	(0.050)	(0.033)	(0.034)	(0.034)
Rural	0.140*	0.125	0.121	0.232***	0.226***	0.251***
	(0.072)	(0.081)	(0.083)	(0.054)	(0.054)	(0.055)
Moscow or St. Petersburg	-0.156	-0.149	-0.129	-0.181*	-0.235**	-0.273***
	(0.096)	(0.092)	(0.083)	(0.107)	(0.093)	(0.089)
Wage arrears	-0.070**	-0.071**	-0.066**	-0.012	-0.012	-0.007
	(0.032)	(0.031)	(0.031)	(0.028)	(0.030)	(0.029)
Regional unemployment (%)	-0.015			0.017
	(0.022)			(0.012)
Specific unemployment (%)		-0.004			0.002
		(0.005)			(0.002)
Specific unemployment (%)			-0.002			0.005***
			(0.004)			(0.002)
N	11 451	11 075	11 451	48 807	47 068	48 807

Notes: 1) Standard errors robust to heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation and clusterisation are in parentheses; 2) *** - significance at 1% level; ** - significance at 5% level; *- significance at 10% level; 3) Controls: occupations, federal districts and years; 4) Estimates for constants and cut points are available on request: 5) RU is regional unemployment, SU is specific unemployment, SNE is specific non-employment.

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