This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

characterised by lower job insecurity, as measured by dismissal rates and by the subjective risk of dismissal perceived by workers …

neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to demographic and economic satisfaction variables from eight years of Danish ECHP … data. Panel regression analysis shows that, conditional on own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction … marginal effect in satisfaction terms. …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …