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The Causal Effects of Education on Adaptability

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individualsâ€™ adaptability to employment shocks …. Specifically, we assess the extent to which education influences re-employment success for unemployed workers. We also examine the … impact of education on job search intensity, one potential mechanism through which education may increase the probability of …

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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes place in regular community college classes. To analyze...

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Industry- and occupation-specific human capital: evidence from displaced workers

Lagoa, Sérgio; Suleman, Fátima - In: International Journal of Manpower 37 (2016) 1, pp. 44-68

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of industry and occupation skills on the wages of displaced workers due to firm closure. Design/methodology/approach – Using linked employer-employee data on displaced workers, this paper estimates the impact of industry and...

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Assistant and auxiliary nurses in crisis times

Eliason, Marcus - In: International Journal of Manpower 35 (2014) 8, pp. 1159-1184

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the earnings, employment and income effects of job displacement among female assistant and auxiliary nurses – two hard-hit female-dominated occupations – in Sweden during the economic crisis of the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach –...

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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2002

We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...

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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2005

We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment,...

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Layoffs, lemons, race and gender

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2005

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...

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Comparative advantage or discrimination? Studying male-female wage differentials using displaced workers

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2007

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatory firms by Black (1995) and an opportunity...

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called Conventions de conversion, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...

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