The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health.

[en] Is workers' health more sensitive to losses than gains in job security? I address this question using the 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax as a quasi-natural experiment. The tax design allows to separately identify the causal impact of exogenous gains and losses in job security on workers' health. Difference-in-differences estimation results show that a greater job insecurity reduces significantly self-reported health. At the same time, more job security does not translate into a higher level of self-reported health.

Disciplines :

Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

LEPINTEUR, Anthony ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Health and Behaviour

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Language :

English

Title :

The asymmetric experience of gains and losses in job security on health.

Publication date :

September 2021

Journal title :

Health Economics

ISSN :

1057-9230

eISSN :

1099-1050

Publisher :

John Wiley and Sons Ltd, England

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

2217 - 2229

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.4369

Funders :

Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg

Funding text :

I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg Grant (C18/SC/12677653). I thank Michel Beine, Liyousew Borga, Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Fabrice Etile, Clemens Hetschko, Giorgia Menta, Benedicte Rouland, Alexandros Theloudis and participants of the PSE Behavioral Seminar, the LISER Research seminar, the 11th Workshop on Labour Economics of Trier, the 2019 ECINEQ conference, 2019 EALE conference, the Workshop on Health and Labour Economics of Nantes, the LSE Wellbeing Seminar and the Economic Seminar of the Leeds University Business School for useful discussions.I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg Grant (C18/SC/12677653). I thank Michel Beine, Liyousew Borga, Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Fabrice Etile, Clemens Hetschko, Giorgia Menta, Benedicte Rouland, Alexandros Theloudis and participants of the PSE Behavioral Seminar, the LISER Research seminar, the 11 Workshop on Labour Economics of Trier, the 2019 ECINEQ conference, 2019 EALE conference, the Workshop on Health and Labour Economics of Nantes, the LSE Wellbeing Seminar and the Economic Seminar of the Leeds University Business School for useful discussions. th

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