We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

. Part of the different effects found for plants and individuals can be attributed to the reallocation of workers into other …

lowest levels of job quality. Most workers in the sectors of finance and business services, public administration, and …

endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions …

countercyclical essentially because job separations of informal workers increase dramatically in recessions. Second, the share of … guided the modeling the sector that informal workers are primarily those rationed out of the formal labor market. They also …