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Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011

-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …

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Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys

Kulkarni, Abhir - 2019

Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...

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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2015

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older...

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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …

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Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings

Maczulskij, Terhi - 2018

We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employer-employee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and employment gains compared to displaced stayers. The results show that job displacement increases the...

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina - 2022

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...

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Flexible Wages and the Costs of Job Displacement

Fernández Guerrico, Sofía; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022

it did not narrow the gender gap in pre-layoff wages. Our results suggest that reduced pay flexibility may help displaced …

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Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation

Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023

earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff separately for migrants and natives. We show that job displacement …

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Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2021

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...

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