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Job loss and immigrant labor market performance

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2016

While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low‐income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe consequences of job loss, than natives. For immigrant workers in the Norwegian private sector, the...

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Social connections and the sorting of workers to firms

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2019

The literature on social networks often presumes that job search through (strong) social ties leads to increased inequality by providing privileged individuals with access to more attractive labor market opportunities. We assess this presumption in the context of sorting between AKM-style person...

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Downsizing

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces heterogeneous firing costs. The theoretical model predicts that the firm displaces workers with low firing costs, low expected future productivity growth, and low layoff option...

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The health externalities of downsizing

Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2020

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a control group. Based on high-quality administrative...

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Don't downsize this! : social reactions to mass dismissals on Twitter

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Chaves Ferreira, Bruno; … - 2020

We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...

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Lost mind, lost job? : unequal effects of corporate downsizings on employees

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Johansson, Edvard - 2022

We analyze whether employees with diagnosed mental health disorders have a higher probability of being laid off during corporate downsizing. Our analysis is based on nationwide administrative data on all private sector firms and their employees in Finland over the period 2005-2017. We focus on...

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Pandemic layoffs and the role of stay-at-home orders

Kudlyak, Marianna; Wolcott, Erin L. - 2024

We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered treatment, we find that locally-mandated stay-at-home orders issued March 16–22, 2020 triggered mass...

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Job loss, firm‐level heterogeneity and mortality : evidence from administrative data

Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2015

This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment …‐level worker characteristics, such as firm‐level average mortality rates for mortality during the four years prior to the year of … observation. On the mechanism driving the effect of job loss on mortality, we provide evidence for an effect running through …

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In sickness and in health : job displacement and health spillovers in couples

Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jernström, Laura - 2020

data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job displacement increases … the mortality risk for both the man and his partner. For every 10,000 displaced men, there are 27 additional deaths over a … due to excess spousal mortality. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases jump up and hospitalization records show more …

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Parental job loss and children's careers

Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....

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