detailed employment information, particularly reasons for job termination and unemployment spells. We focus solely on plant …

-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of …

fixed effects regression models and propensity score matching techniques in order to establish the causal effect of …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

market outcome up to 1999. The control group is extracted from a random sample of non-displaced employees by matching on … to 1990, both with respect to employment and unemployment measures. However, with the advent of the deep recession in …

collar jobs. -- firm specific human capital ; plant closures ; matching …

search and matching frictions and incorporate a US unemployment insurance experience rating system. Layoff taxes based on … experience rating finance the cost of unemployment benefits and create considerable employment adjustment costs. Our framework … helps realign the search and matching model with the empirical properties of its most salient variables. The model …