Cantó, OlgaGarcía Pérez, CarmeloRomaguera de la Cruz, Marina2024-12-162024-12-162020-09Olga Cantó, Carmelo García-Pérez, Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, The dimension, nature and distribution of economic insecurity in European countries: A multidimensional approach, Economic Systems, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2020, 100807, ISSN 0939-3625, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.1008070939-3625https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.100807https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24913La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Economic Systems, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2020, 100807, ISSN 0939-3625,, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.100807. The copyrighted version of this article, first published in Economic Systems, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2020, 100807, ISSN 0939-3625, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.100807Economic insecurity is a key well-being outcome because the anticipation of future economic distress reveals itself as a true threat to current well-being. Insecurity has been shown to affect quality of life and to change an individual’s consumption, fertility, labor supply and even political support decisions to mitigate risk. This paper provides evidence on the dimension, nature and distribution of economic insecurity for 27 European countries during a whole decade by using a multidimensional individual approach that considers both objective and subjective indicators. The young, the less educated and the unemployed living in households with dependent children have significantly higher levels of economic insecurity everywhere. However, insecurity affects the population in the middle class only in some countries but not in others, and the level of insecurity in liberal regimes is more linked to large income losses than elsewhere. The role of objective versus subjective dimensions is larger in post-transition Eastern European regimes than in long-standing capitalist countries.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho53 Ciencias EconómicasartículoEconomic insecuritywelfare regimescounting approachmultidimensional indexeuropean countries