Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline

Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans (), Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs () and Guy Michaels
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Tiernan Evans: CEP, London School of Economics
Sofia Hernnäs: Uppsala University

No 12434, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: What are the earnings and employment losses that workers suffer when demand for their occupations declines? To answer this question we combine forecasts on occupational employment changes, which allow us to identify unanticipated declines; administrative data on the population of Swedish workers, spanning several decades; and a highly detailed occupational classification. We find that, compared to similar workers, those facing occupational decline lost about 2-5 percent of mean cumulative earnings from 1986-2013. But workers at the bottom of their occupations' initial earnings distributions suffered considerably larger losses. These earnings losses are partly accounted for by reduced employment, and increased unemployment and retraining.

Keywords: occupations; technological change; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J62 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 101 pages
Date: 2019-06
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (654), 2178–2209

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Working Paper: Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline (2019)
Working Paper: Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline (2019)
Working Paper: Individual consequences of occupational decline (2019)
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