Jacobson, Louis S.; LaLonde, Robert J.; Sullivan, Daniel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992
The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers' job losses. To estimate the … magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that … includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers …