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Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter

Bassanini, Andrea; Ferreira, Bruno Chaves; Caroli, Eve; … - 2021

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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Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Bratsberg, Bernt - 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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Job Loss and Regional Mobility

Huttunen, Kristiina - 2015

It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment opportunities. We study this and find that job displacement increases regional mobility but,...

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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers

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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Job Loss, Firm‐Level Heterogeneity and Mortality : Evidence from Administrative Data

Bloemen, Hans - 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 - 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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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners : Downsizing

Friebel, Guido - 2012

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant...

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Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health

Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2015

We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control for endogeneity and sample selection. With the exception of the instrumental variables approach, which provides large imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer...

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The Health Externalities of Downsizing

Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2021

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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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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