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Parental Job Loss and Children’s School Performance
Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2007
Using Norwegian register data we estimate how children’s school performance is affected by their parents’ exposure to plant closure. Fathers’ exposure leads to a substantial decline in children’s graduation-year grade point average, but only in municipalities with mediocre-performing job...
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Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390573
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Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo E.; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497901
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Job loss at home : children's school performance during the Great Recession
Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 3, pp. 243-286
This paper studies the intergenerational impact of parental job loss on school performance during the Great Recession in Spain. Collecting data through parental surveys in a school in the province of Barcelona, I obtain information about the parental labour market status before and after the...
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Talent discovery, layoff risk and unemployment insurance
Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca - 2018
In talent-intensive jobs, workers' quality is revealed by their performance. This enhances productivity and earnings, but also increases layoff risk. Firms cannot insure workers against this risk if they compete fiercely for talent. In this case, the more risk-averse workers will choose less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918894
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Talent Discovery, Layoff Risk and Unemployment Insurance
Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca - 2018
In talent-intensive jobs, workers’ quality is revealed by their performance. This enhances productivity and earnings, but also increases layoff risk. Firms cannot insure workers against this risk if they compete fiercely for talent. In this case, the more risk-averse workers will choose less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110369
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Employment dynamics in a signaling model with workers' incentives
Weingarden, Alison - 2016
Many firms adjust employment in a "lumpy" manner -- infrequently and in large bursts. In this paper, I show that lumpy adjustments can arise from concerns about the incentives of remaining workers. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm's productivity depends on its workers' effort and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709242
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Job loss and regional mobility
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015
It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment opportunities. We study this and find that job displacement increases regional mobility but,...
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The health externalities of downsizing
Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2021
We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … control group. Based on highquality administrative data, we find evidence that downsizing has persistent effects on mental and … externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392218
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The health externalities of downsizing
Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2020
We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … control group. Based on highquality administrative data, we find evidence that downsizing has persistent effects on mental and … externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404923