Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layoffs than for plant closings … DWS data to examine how the difference in wage losses across plant closings and layoffs varies with race and gender. We … females, and black males). These three all experience a greater decline in earnings at plant closings than at layoffs. This …