Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 7 Personal unemployment experience and fear of not finding a new job, RLMS, 1994-2008, oprobit

Dependent variable: fear of not finding a new job	1994-1998			2000-2008
(1-min., 5-max.)	RU	SU	SNE	RU	SU	SNE
Regional unemployment (%)	0.011			0.023**
	0.018			0.011
Specific unemployment (%)		0.001			0.002
		0.003			0.002
Specific non-employment (%)			0.001			0.005***
			0.004			0.002
Unemployment experience (1-yes, 0-no)	0.154**	0.169**	0.150**	0.074***	0.084***	0.078***
	0.072	0.077	0.072	0.023	0.025	0.024

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.