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The use of social contacts in the labor market is widespread. This paper investigates the impact of personal connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer-employee data to define personal connections that arise...
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and wider networks are important mainstays in helping jobseekers back into work but in different ways and for a variety of … social networks this investigation sheds some light on the extent to which social connectedness matters for jobseekers in …
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earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff separately for migrants and natives. We show that job displacement … find that these gaps are driven by labor market conditions, such as local migrant networks and labor market tightness …
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earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff separately for migrants and natives. We show that job displacement … find that these gaps are driven by labor market conditions, such as local migrant networks and labor market tightness …
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This paper extends the literature on the earnings losses of displaced workers to provide a more comprehensive picture of the earnings and employment outcomes for workers who separate. First, we compare workers who separate from distressed employers (presumably displaced workers) and those who...
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A substantial empirical literature documents large and persistent average earnings losses following job displacement … separations in general, as opposed to displacements in particular. The key predictor of earnings losses is not displacement but …
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Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the business cycle. The paper captures economic fluctuations by measuring deviations in local...
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Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we … neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The … additionally by networks of former co-workers who also lost their jobs due to plant closure. …
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The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France … contribution of two important sources of post-displacement wage adjustments. The first one relates to the loss of seniority …
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