Area-level unemployment and perceived job insecurity: evidence from a longitudinal survey conducted in the Australian working-age population Milner, Allison, Kavanagh, Anne, Krnjacki, Lauren, Bentley, Rebecca and LaMontagne, Anthony D 2014, Area-level unemployment and perceived job insecurity: evidence from a longitudinal survey conducted in the Australian working-age population, Annals of occupational hygiene, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 171-181, doi: 10.1093/annhyg/met066. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads lamontagne-arealevel-2014.pdf Published version application/pdf 741.39KB 158 Title Area-level unemployment and perceived job insecurity: evidence from a longitudinal survey conducted in the Australian working-age population Author(s) Milner, Allison Kavanagh, Anne Krnjacki, Lauren Bentley, Rebecca LaMontagne, Anthony D orcid.org/0000-0002-5811-5906 Journal name Annals of occupational hygiene Volume number 58 Issue number 2 Start page 171 End page 181 Total pages 11 Publisher Oxford University Press Place of publication Oxford, UK Publication date 2014 ISSN 1475-3162 0003-4878 Keyword(s) Area-based factors job insecurity multi-level model unemployment working conditions Summary Research significance: Job insecurity, the subjective individual anticipation of involuntary job loss, negatively affects employees’ health and their engagement. Although the relationship between job insecurity and health has been extensively studied, job insecurity as an ‘exposure’ has received far less attention, with little known about the upstream determinants of job insecurity in particular. This research sought to identify the relationship between self-rated job insecurity and area-level unemployment using a longitudinal, nationally representative study of Australian households. Methods: Mixed-effect multi-level regression models were used to assess the relationship between area-based unemployment rates and self-reported job insecurity using data from a longitudinal, nationally representative survey running since 2001. Interaction terms were included to test the hypotheses that the relationship between area-level unemployment and job insecurity differed between occupational skill-level groups and by employment arrangement. Marginal effects were computed to visually depict differences in job insecurity across areas with different levels of unemployment. Results: Results indicated that areas with the lowest unemployment rates had significantly lower job insecurity (predicted value 2.74; 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.71–2.78, P < 0.001) than areas with higher unemployment (predicted value 2.81; 95% CI 2.79–2.84, P < 0.001). There was a stronger relationship between area-level unemployment and job insecurity among precariously and fixed-term employed workers than permanent workers. Conclusion: These findings demonstrate the independent influences of prevailing economic conditions, individual- and job-level factors on job insecurity. Persons working on a casual basis or on a fixed-term contract in areas with higher levels of unemployment are more susceptible to feelings of job insecurity than those working permanently. Language eng DOI 10.1093/annhyg/met066 Field of Research 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30061374 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Health and Social Development Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:43:36 EST Tue, 11 Mar 2014, 13:22:22 EST Fri, 14 Mar 2014, 11:33:34 EST Fri, 14 Mar 2014, 11:36:58 EST Tue, 23 Sep 2014, 12:31:33 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:57:24 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 6 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 250 Abstract Views, 159 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:43:36 EST

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