Fallick, Bruce.

Job Displacement and Job Mobility: The Role of Joblessness / Bruce Fallick, John C. Haltiwanger, Erika McEntarfer, Matthew Staiger. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w29187 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29187. .

August 2021.

Who is harmed by and who benefits from worker reallocation? We investigate the earnings consequences of changing jobs and find a wide dispersion in outcomes. This dispersion is driven not by whether the worker was displaced, but by the duration of joblessness between job spells. Job movers who experience joblessness suffer a persistent reduction in earnings and tend to move to lower-paying firms, suggesting that job ladder models offer a useful lens through which to understand the negative consequences of job separations.




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