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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany
Social Science Research Network, 2022 We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns.
Johannes F. Schmieder +2 more
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Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable [PDF]
The American Economic Review, 2016 We consider inference in regression discontinuity designs when the running variable only takes a moderate number of distinct values. In particular, we study the common practice of using confidence intervals (CIs) based on standard errors that are ...
M. Kolesár, Christoph Rothe
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The Unequal Consequences of Job Loss Across Countries
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design applied to seven matched employer-employee datasets. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while ...
Antoine Bertheau +5 more
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Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms’ adjustment costs upon worker absence.
Rita Ginja, A. Karimi, Pengpeng Xiao
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How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Data Sets
Social Science Research Network, 2023 How much and through which channels do households self-insure against job loss? Combining data from a large bank and from government sources, we quantify a broad range of responses to job loss in a unified empirical framework.
A. Andersen +5 more
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Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills
The American Economic Review, 2022 We assess South African workseekers’ skills and disseminate the assessment results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior.
Eliana Carranza +3 more
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The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle?
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsWe measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the variation induced by Congress' failure in December 2013 to reauthorize the unprecedented benefit extensions introduced during the Great ...
Marcus Hagedorn +2 more
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The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia
The American Economic Review, 2021 We study how search frictions in the labor market affect firms’ ability to recruit talented workers. In a field experiment in Ethiopia, we show that an employer can attract more talented applicants by offering a small monetary incentive for making a job ...
Girum Abebe +2 more
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The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
Social Science Research NetworkMen and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide ...
Jonas Fluchtmann +3 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16426 SEPTEMBER 2023 Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers* Predictions of whether newly unemployed individuals will become long-term unemployed are important for the ...
Gerard J. van den Berg +4 more
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