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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Effects of Firm Size and Business Cycle on Earning Losses of Displaced Workers |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics |
| Number | No. 366 |
| ISSN | 1424-0459 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | This paper analyzes labor market success of workers who are displaced in boom versus recession periods. Moreover, the empirical analysis contrasts workers from small firms and large firms. The idea is that displacement carries no information about workers' productivity in large firms but is a signal of low productivity in small firms. This signal is stronger when the plant closure occurs in a boom period than in a recession period. Results indicate that the (i) state of the business cycle is important for influence the effect of displacement on labor market success and (ii) the effect differs by the size of the firm. In large firms, displaced workers suffer from larger earning losses when displacement occurs in recession compared to boom, thenopposite result is found for workers displaced from small firms. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/wp.html |
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