Socio-economic insecurity perceptions and their societal determinants: Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

European Societies Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2043406

Naoki Akaeda, Nadine M. Schöneck

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ABSTRACT The 2008/09 economic crisis was – unsurprisingly – paralleled by noteworthy perceptions of socio-economic insecurity among Europeans. Respondents in different countries reported more or less grave fears of employment and income insecurity depending on their respective countries’ performance during the crisis. Against this background, we are interested in the manifestations of perceived socio-economic insecurity and their macro contextual determinants. After formulating hypotheses regarding socio-economic and welfare-institutional factors, we test them by using two rounds of the European Social Survey (fielded in 2008/09 and 2016/17). Based on three-level regressions with between-within models of 23,000 individuals (11,611 individuals in 2008/09 and 11,389 individuals in 2016/17) nested in 34 country-years and 17 European countries, we find that the level of perceived socio-economic insecurity in 2016/17 was generally lower than in 2008/09. Additionally, we reveal differences in the effects of the socio-economic factors and welfare-institutional factors between and within countries. These findings suggest that the inconsistency of the results of contextual factors among previous studies might stem from jumbling between- and within-country effects.

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社会经济不安全感及其社会决定因素:大衰退后的欧洲

摘要不出所料，2008/09年的经济危机伴随着欧洲人对社会经济不安全感的关注。不同国家的受访者表示，根据各自国家在危机期间的表现，他们或多或少对就业和收入不安全感到严重担忧。在这一背景下，我们对社会经济不安全的表现及其宏观背景决定因素感兴趣。在提出有关社会经济和福利制度因素的假设后，我们通过两轮欧洲社会调查(2008/09和2016/17)对其进行了检验。基于对34个国家/年和17个欧洲国家的23,000个人(2008/09年为11,611人，2016/17年为11,389人)嵌套的三水平回归模型，我们发现2016/17年的感知社会经济不安全水平普遍低于2008/09年。此外，我们还揭示了国家之间和国家内部社会经济因素和福利制度因素影响的差异。这些发现表明，先前研究中背景因素结果的不一致可能源于国家之间和国家内部影响的混淆。

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European Societies SOCIOLOGY-

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