Governing Labor Market Risks
Governing Labor Market Risks

Summary/Abstract: Based on compensation hypothesis, this study formulates several hypotheses about the relationship between work insecurity and preferences for protection. By combining a vignette study with a survey among workers (in total 914 workers from the Netherlands responded to four different vignettes (n= 3656 vignettes)) it was possible to address the following questions: How do the preferences for protection relate to labor market insecurities and to what extent are the effect of experimental conditions on preferences for risk governance affected by experiences in the actual work situation? The findings mainly support the expectations derived from the compensation hypothesis and expand them by showing how insecurities in the workplace cross-over to the experimental setting. While the compensation hypothesis is investigated in prior research, this is the first (semi-)experimental study allowing for arguing that the link between individual risks and preferences for protection are causal.

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