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Table 5 Personal unemployment experience and fear of losing a job, RLMS, 1994-2008, oprobit

From: Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Dependent variable: fear of losing a job (1-min., 5-max)

1994-1998

2000-2008

RU

SU

SNE

RU

SU

SNE

Regional unemployment (%)

-0.010

  

0.018

  
 

(0.006)

  

(0.012)

  

Specific unemployment (%)

 

-0.003

  

0.001

 
  

(0.005)

  

(0.002)

 

Specific non-employment (%)

  

-0.001

  

0.006***

   

(0.005)

  

(0.002)

Unemployment experience (1-yes, 0-no)

0.115

0.154*

0.113

0.007

0.011

0.009

 

(0.073)

(0.081)

(0.080)

(0.034)

(0.033)

(0.033)

  1. 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) All variables mentioned in Table 4 are controlled; 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.