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This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...
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substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home …
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-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …
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's earnings, wage, and employment loss after a mass layoff in comparison to a matched, nondisplaced, control worker. We find that … migrants face substantially higher earnings losses than natives due to both higher wage and employment losses. Differences in … but not the employment gap after displacement. Laid-off migrants are both less likely to become reemployed and work fewer …
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This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …
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We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
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In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental...
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...
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This paper analyses the longer term impacts of involuntary job loss of workers subsequent employment, earnings, and … income support in New Zealand. It uses data from the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) to identify job … substantially affected workers employment, earnings and income over the following five years. Compared to workers who did not lose …
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