TY - RPRT AU - McGuinness, Seamus AU - Wooden, Mark AU - Hahn, Markus TI - Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes PY - 2012/Jul/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 6764 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6764 AB - This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and subsequent transitions to unemployment and inactivity. Second, while fears of job loss tend to persist across time and job spells, they do so at a highly diminishing rate, suggesting that the impacts on other outcomes (such as psychological well-being) may be quite limited. Third, quit intentions are strongly correlated with both voluntary separations and transitions to alternative employment. The desire to quit, however, does not appear to diminish greatly across successive employment spells. KW - job loss KW - job insecurity KW - HILDA survey KW - Australia KW - quits ER -