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15.04.2019 | Original Article

Development of perceived job insecurity among young workers: a latent class growth analysis

verfasst von: Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Anne Mäkikangas, Ulla Kinnunen, Magnus Sverke

Erschienen in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Ausgabe 6/2019

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Abstract

Purpose

Individual differences in the development of perceived job insecurity among young workers may be influenced by characteristics of the first job (contract type and sector) and individual background (education and previous unemployment), and can have implications for subsequent health and well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of perceived job insecurity during the early career, as well as associations between different patterns of development (i.e., trajectories), predictors and outcomes.

Methods

We conducted a latent class growth analysis to identify trajectories of perceived job insecurity and investigated their respective associations with predictors and outcomes across 6 years in a sample of 1711 German labor market entrants.

Results

Six trajectories were identified: three showed stable job insecurity perceptions (stable moderate, 36%; stable low, 32%; stable high, 5%), two showed decrease (moderate to low, 12%; high to moderate, 3%), and one showed increasing job insecurity perceptions (low to moderate, 13%). Temporary contracts and previous unemployment predicted trajectories characterized by increasing, higher initial or higher overall levels of perceived job insecurity. In contrast, public sector employees and university graduates were less likely to experience persisting or increasing job insecurity. The trajectories differed in their overall levels of self-rated health and job satisfaction, but not with respect to change in these outcomes. Instead, increasing perceived job insecurity was associated with decreasing life satisfaction.

Conclusions

The findings suggest that an insecure career start and individual risk factors may predispose young workers to an unfavorable development of both job insecurity perceptions and levels of well-being.

With only 7% of the persons identified as labor market entrants reporting to be self-employed at some point during the first 6 years in the labor market, the prevalence was low in our data as well.

When using the full sample without covariates, the general pattern remained that the main effects of trajectories were significant on all outcomes, whereas the trajectory × time interaction was significant only for life satisfaction.

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Titel: Development of perceived job insecurity among young workers: a latent class growth analysis
verfasst von: Katharina Klug
Claudia Bernhard-Oettel
Anne Mäkikangas
Ulla Kinnunen
Magnus Sverke
Publikationsdatum: 15.04.2019
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Ausgabe 6/2019
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-019-01429-0

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Development of perceived job insecurity among young workers: a latent class growth analysis

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