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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch
Andersson, Fredrik - 2014
accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor …
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The Economic Performance of Survivors after Layoffs : A Plant-Level Study
Ichniowski, Casey - 1986
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...
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Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes : An Analysis using Administrative Data
Sullivan, Daniel - 2007
This paper uses administrative data on quarterly employment and earnings matched to death records to estimate the effects of job displacement on mortality. We find that job displacement leads to a 15-20% increase in death rates during the following 20 years. If such increases were sustained...
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Job Loss in the United States, 1981-2001
Farber, Henry - 2003
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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Reconsidering the Consequences of Worker Displacements : Firm versus Worker Perspective
Flaaen, Aaron B. - 2017
Prior literature has established that displaced workers suffer persistent earnings losses by following workers in administrative data after mass layoffs. This literature assumes that these are involuntary separations owing to economic distress. This paper examines this assumption by matching...
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Locate Your Nearest Exit : Mass Layoffs and Local Labor Market Response
Foote, Andrew - 2015
Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor …
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Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia
Khanna, Gaurav - 2019
We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass-layoffs, on criminal arrests using a novel matched employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased likelihood of being arrested for both the displaced...
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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
Davis, Steven J. - 2008
Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …
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Alternative and Part-Time Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss
Farber, Henry S. - 1999
I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs find work in alternative employment arrangements including temporary work and independent contracting and find part-time work, both voluntary and involuntary. The analysis is based on data from the Displaced Worker Supplements (DWS) and the...
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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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