Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

This paper examines whether subjective expectations of unemployment are reliable indicators of the probability of … becoming unemployed, and investigates their association with wage growth. We find that workers' fears of unemployment are … increased by their previous unemployment experience and by the unemployment experiences of a close friend, and are associated …