This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of … displaced workers due to plant closures in Austria. Using the Austrian Social Security Database (a matched employer …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …

Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

response of employment to a technology shock. We find that labor market frictions account for the fall in labor inputs. …

-search strategies and employment histories, and identify how any differences vary over the business cycle. We find systematic …