Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2023
We compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs by applying an event study design combined with propensity … score matching and reweighting to administrative data from Germany. After a mass layo, women's earnings losses are about 35 …% higher than men's, with the gap persisting five years after displacement. This is partly explained by women taking up more …