Advance Notice and Postdisplacement Joblessness

Christopher Ruhm

Journal of Labor Economics, 1992, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-32

Abstract: This article investigates whether prenotification decreases postdisplacement joblessness. Reduced-form estimates indicate that lengthy written notice is associated with small increases in the probability of avoiding nonemployment but with no decline in average durations. Significant reductions are found, however, for household heads, women, nonwhites, and in local labor markets with high unemployment rates. A new method is developed to control for the endogeneity of voluntarily provided advance notice. This procedure suggests that previous research substantially overstates the degree to which prenotification reduces nonemployment and indicates that the actual decrease is between two and five working days. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.

Date: 1992
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