Occupational routine-intensity and the costs of job loss: evidence from mass layoffs

Uwe Blien (), Wolfgang Dauth and Duncan Roth

No 201925, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupa-tions suffer larger and more persistent earnings losses after the mass layoff. Furthermore, we are able to show that, at least initially, earnings losses are primarily due to a reduction in the number of days in employment, suggesting that routine-intensive workers face considerable frictions in the adjustment to job loss. Conditional on finding a new job, routine-intensive workers are more likely to change their occupations but end up systematically in the lower end of their new occupa-tion's wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Auswirkungen; berufliche Reintegration; Berufsgruppe; Determinanten; Einkommenseffekte; IAB-Betriebs-Historik-Panel; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Kosten; Massenentlassungen; Routine; Tätigkeitsmerkmale; Arbeitsplatzverlust; 1980-2010 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J63 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2019-12-23
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Published in/as: Labour Economics (2021), Art. 101953, doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101953

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