This chapter argues that academics are particularly highly identified with their job because of the long socialisation process, strong group norms and exclusive societal status. Consequently, qualitative and quantitative job insecurity would be particularly problematic for academics, as it could easily constitute an identity threat. Data from the international job insecurity study shows that academics are more identified than non-academics with their job, in nine out of ten country samples. When looking at all countries together, the study also confirms that qualitative job insecurity was related to lowered identification with the job and the working population, but quantitative job insecurity was not. Only identification with the working population was related to burnout, identification with the job did not play a role. When looking at individual country-sample results, a more varied pattern emerges, which might indicate a different meaning of job insecurity per country.