SCARS OF RECESSIONS IN A RIGID LABOR MARKET

Bart Cockx and Corinna Ghirelli

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after graduation. For the high educated, the working time is not persistently affected, but the penalty on the hourly wage (and earnings) increases with experience, and attains roughly -6% ten years after labor market entry. We also contribute to the literature on inference with few clusters.

Keywords: scars; graduating; labor market rigidity; recession; few clusters; cluster robust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C41 E32 I21 J22 J23 J31 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mac
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