Job Displacement

Kletzer, Lori G.

doi:10.1257/jep.12.1.115

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“…Furthermore, as mentioned, for example, by Schwerdt (2011), labor turnover before exit should also be taken into account when examining the effects of displacement on labor market outcomes like earnings. The upshot is that it may be misleading to regard firm exits as exogenous shocks that are unrelated to worker characteristics, as it is often assumed in the literature (see e.g., Kletzer, 1998;Farber, 1999).…”

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler¹,

Schnabel²,

Wagner³

2013

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Using a large administrative data set for Germany, this article compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. Applying a matching approach, we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: in both West and East Germany establishments shrink dramatically already several years before closure, employment growth rates differ strongly between exiting and surviving establishments, and this difference becomes stronger as exit approaches. Moreover, we provide first evidence that prior to exit the workforce becomes on average more skilled, more female, and older in exiting compared to surviving establishments. These effects are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany.JEL classification: L2, D22, J65.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler¹,

Schnabel²,

Wagner³

2013

Industrial and Corporate Change

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“…Displaced workers have been the subject of an extensive literature (see surveys by Fallick, 1996, andKletzer, 1998). The basic stylised facts are: 1) displaced workers experience longer unemployment spells and higher earning losses than the other unemployed workers (Swaim andPodgursky, 1991, Jacobson et al, 1993); 2) the duration of the subsequent unemployment spell increases with job tenure (Fallick, 1996), because workers with high tenure have a higher level of specific human capital investment in their firms and in their industry or occupational sectors; 3) the duration of this unemployment spell is affected by the cause of displacement; for instance, Swaim and Podgursky (1991) found that workers displaced because of plant closures experience one third fewer weeks of unemployment than those who are laid off by ongoing establishments.…”

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“…Dar and Gill (1998), after studying eleven retraining programs in six countries, concluded that such programs are generally no more effective than job search assistance in increasing re-employment prospects. As a result, they should be targeted to those who can benefit the most from them: women and minorities (Moore, 1990), industry-switchers (Stock, 1998), laid off workers from manufacturing (Kletzer, 1998), or those with high tenure (Jacobson et al, 1993). In fact job search assistance and training appear to have some impact on the types of jobs that displaced workers obtain.…”

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

2010

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“…1 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/disp.nr0.htm 2 For a summary of the literature on displaced workers to 1998, see Kletzer (1998). Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), Polsky (1999) found that the consequences of job loss worsened between the periods 1976-81 and 1986-91.…”

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Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?

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Job Displacement

Cited by 412 publications

References 25 publications

Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

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

Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?

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