NEGOTIATE Employer Survey. Scientific Use File, 2020

In an effort to broaden the understanding of how early job insecurity can affect an individual’s future career from an employer’s perspective, an employer-sided survey with an integrated multidimensional vignette experiment in Bulgaria, Greece, Norway and Switzerland was fielded in 2016 as part of NEGOTIATE. This report documents the sampling strategy, the datacollection and the survey experiment design in the four countries. In addition, some basic descriptive results from the survey is presented.

The unique data set is innovative in at least three regards: First, the results from the vignette experiment allow causal interpretation and provide high internal validity. Second, the respondents are real employers who were recruiting for real vacancies, which maximises the external validity. And third, the crossnational harmonised study facilitates direct country comparisons.