The Response of Employees to Severance Incentives: The University of California's Faculty, 1991-94

John Pencavel

Working Papers from United Nations World Employment Programme-

Abstract: In response to huge budgetary shortfalls in the early 1990s, the University of California offered its older and longer service employees financial inducements to leave. This paper analyzes the responses of UC's faculty to three waves of buyout incentives. It is estimated that an individual presented with ten percent higher severance benefits has a seven to eight percent higher probability of quitting. However, quit probabilities are very difficult to forecast with accuracy. This casts doubt on arguments that maintain that buyouts are superior to employer-initiated layoffs as a mechanism to effect large employment changes.

Keywords: WAGES; EDUCATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J65 J26 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000

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