The unequal consequences of job loss across countries

Antoine Bertheau, Edoardo Maria Acabbi, Cristina Barceló, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi and Raffaele Saggio
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Cristina Barceló: Banco de España
Raffaele Saggio: VATT Institute for Economic Research Helsinki, Ifau Uppsala, Iza and Uppsala Center for labor studies

No 2224, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: 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 workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and Austrian workers face earnings losses somewhere in between. Key to these differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer-specific wage premiums explains a substantial portion of wage losses in all countries.

Keywords: job loss effects; wage dynamics; labor turnover; layoffs; matched employer-employee dataset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2022-07
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