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 but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible …We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … regions to withdraw from the workforce up to 3.5 years earlier than those in non-eligible regions. For males, instrumental …

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 but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible …We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … regions to withdraw from the workforce up to 3.5 years earlier than those in non-eligible regions. For males, instrumental …

exact matching to compare workers displaced by firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference …-in-difference strategy to analyze employment and earnings of older relative to prime-age workers in the displacement and non … prime-age workers but later they catch up. While among the young the employment prospects of the displaced remain …