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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers
The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers’ job losses. To estimate the magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers’ earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that includes both employees’ quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers separate from distressed firms their ...
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The characteristics of a sample of workers from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics who were laid off permanently or whose plants closed between 1968 and 1981 are examined. The displaced workers are found to have roughly the same characteristics as the typical labor-force participant, while those laid off are somewhat younger and less educated. A theoretical model of the losses resulting from di...
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Worker displacement has become a common feature of employment in the "flexible economy." While studies of income losses and the duration of unemployment after displacement abound, and popular accounts argue that workers often lose status, less empirical attention has been paid to the quality or prestige of employment displaced workers are able to secure after a downsizing event. This paper help...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0019-7939
DOI: 10.2307/2521185