@article{2017:masson:insecure_e,
title = {Insecure Employment and Pro-Environmental Consumption: An empirical Analysis},
year = {2017},
note = {Pro-environmental consumption is one element of the behavioral change
that is necessary to ensure sustainability. It is well known that
consumption patterns differ according to socioeconomic status in
general and that pro-environmental consumption behavior is affected
by, among others, people's gender, education and current income.
However, relatively few studies have tried to link pro-environmental
consumption and socioeconomic characteristics beyond these well-known
correlations. We aim to contribute to this literature by looking at
the effects of the growing employment insecurity on pro-environmental
consumption. Therefore we first review the literature on the effects
of insecure employment and develop our hypotheses on the effects on
purchase of organic food (as an example of pro-environmental
consumption). Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we
show that employment insecurity negatively affects frequency of
organic food purchase, as well as perceived freedom of choice and
attitudes toward organic food purchase. Our results thus hint at
direct and indirect effects of insecurity on pro-environmental
consumption behavior. The policy conclusion is that any strategy for
sustainable development needs to include social policy in order to
enable behavioral change.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {62--79},
author = {Masson, Torsten and Leßmann, Ortrud},
volume = {28},
number = {1}
}