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Over the last few decades several economic, political, and technological changessurrounding work have left people insecure about their jobs. Traditionally, researchon insecure workers has focused on organizational consequences of job insecurityand on employees' psychophysical well-being. However, some recent studies foundthat job insecurity is also associated with extraorganizational outcomes related tosaving and spending decision-making. The purpose of this paper is to replicate inthe Slovakian context the study of Lozza et al. (2017) to examine the effect of jobinsecurity on such extra-organizational outcomes. Using a simulation experimentresearch design, 361 Slovakian participants were asked to evaluate their jobinsecurity and their inclination towards daily consumption and major life decisions.Results support the findings from the original study. It is shown that changes ofboth contract of employment and context can affect perceived job insecurity, withcontext (e.g., economic downturns) having a stronger influence than contract ofemployment. In addition, changes in job insecurity significantly affect withholdingdaily consumption and major life decisions', with perceived job insecurity having agreater influence on the latter. The effects of context-related specificities, such asemployment protection legislation, are also discussed.

Traditionally, research on job insecurity (JI) has focused on organizational consequences and employees' psychophysical well-being. However, some recent studies explored potential extraorganizational outcomes of JI in relation to consumption and major life decisions. The present study, drawing on Conservation of Resource Theory, overcomes the limits of previous works by examining the effects of changes in JI through a simulation experiment design. Using a sequence of two different scenarios, 377 participants were asked to evaluate their JI and their inclination towards daily consumption and some major life decisions. Findings confirm that changes in JI affect such extraorganizational outcomes. It is also suggested that an improvement in job security leads to an increase in both consumption and major life decisions, which – in absolute values – is higher compared to the decrease that follows a reduction of job security.