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SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
Volume 137, Issue 3, Pages 1145-1162Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1635-z
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Fixed-term employment; Job insecurity; Subjective indicators; Life satisfaction
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Job insecurity has become increasingly evident in European countries in recent years. In Germany, legislation has increased insecurity through erosion of the standard employment relationship. Fixed-term contracts are central to definitions of insecurity based on atypical or precarious work but there is still limited understanding of what creates insecurity and how it affects workers. Drawing on Bourdieu's thesis that insecurity is everywhere, the relationships between subjective and objective measures of insecurity are examined for their impact on the 5-year trajectories of life satisfaction of men and women in the age group 27-30. Latent growth curve analysis of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 2010-2014 highlights the adverse and lasting effects of subjective concerns about job insecurity on life satisfaction trajectories. This association cuts across educational groups, with far reaching implications as subjective concerns about job security permeate young worker's lives well beyond the objective condition of being employed on a fixed-term contract.
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