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This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the employment and retirement behavior of men aged … above face significantly higher probabilities of exiting the workforce than do workers who have not experienced a recent job …
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In this article, we estimate the costs of hiring, separation, and retirement of employees for a representative sample … (ESS), the Workforce Movement Questionnaire (DMMO), and the Occupational Structure Survey (ESE). We show that the estimated …
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employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by temporary layoffs and later recalls. Taking these into account, we show that …
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would be the design of an efficient window plan? These questions are addressed using the retirement model in Stock and Wise … to minimize either expected future wage payments or the current cost per induced retirement, the firm could have saved …
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Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the economy, there are significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We...
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This study tests for the empirical relationship between layoffs and the economic performance of workers who remain … after the layoffs. Previous studies performed in laboratory settings have often found increases in the efficiency of workers … after layoffs. This analysis is the first to test for this relationship using operating data from a set of similar …
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selective job displacement. To examine the channels through which mass layoffs raise mortality, we exploit the panel nature of …
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I examine changes in the incidence and consequences of job loss between 1981 and 2001 using data from the Displaced Workers Surveys (DWS) from 1984-2002. The overall rate of job loss has a strong counter-cyclical component, but the job loss rate was higher than might have been expected during...
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administrative data after mass layoffs. This literature assumes that these are involuntary separations owing to economic distress … data. Workers exhibit substantially different earnings dynamics in mass layoffs depending on the rea- son for separation …
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force. This study examines the relationship between mass layoffs and the long-run size of the local labor force. It … considers four main channels through which the local labor force may adjust: in-migration, out-migration, retirement, and …
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