Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect

The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description of who is unemployed within the household and find that they are mostly related to the household head...

The intergenerational effects of worker displacement

This paper uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of worker displacement. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows almost 60,000 father-child pairs from 1978 to 1999 and includes detailed information about the firms at which the father worked, we construct narrow treatment and control groups whose fathers had the same level of permanen...

Worker Displacement in Japan and Canada

Wages and Worker Displacement in Germany

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on wages of socially insured German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on job loss is unavailable, displacement status is predicted using a probit estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel. In contrast to US findings, post-displacement wages decline only slightly upon reemployment. The lowest earnings quartile...

Worker Democracy and Worker Productivity

A major source of oppression in industrial and post-industrial society is the restrictive and highly authoritarian nature of the workplace. One response is to democratize the workplace by increasing the participation of workers in making decisions and in choosing and evaluating managers as well as sharing in the ownership of the firm. These are not new ideas, and there are many examples of orga...