Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Melanie Arntz, Boris Ivanov and Laura Pohlan

No 202217, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to show that the individual costs of job loss strongly depend on the task-bias of regional structural change. Workers displaced from routine manual occupations have substantially higher and more persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility partly serve as an adjustment mechanism, but come at high cost as these switches also involve losses in firm wage premia. Non-displaced workers, by contrast, remain largely unaffected by structural change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Westdeutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; Auswirkungen; berufliche Mobilität; Berufsgruppe; Berufsverlauf; Beschäftigungseffekte; Betriebsstilllegung; Einkommenseffekte; IAB-Beschäftigtenhistorik; Massenentlassungen; regionale Mobilität; regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Routine; technischer Wandel; Arbeitslosigkeit; Wirtschaftsstrukturwandel; 1990-2010 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J63 J64 J65 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61 pages
Date: 2022-08-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-tid and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss (2022)
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2217

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