Arbeitspapier
The Costs of Job Loss and Task Usage
This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that the heterogeneity in the cost of job loss is linked to task usage. Workers in origin jobs with high levels of social tasks have smaller employment and earnings losses, whereas workers in routine jobs face larger wage losses. Instead, the distance in task usage between the origin job and other jobs does not matter when the usage of manual, abstract, routine and social tasks is taken into account.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ETLA Working Papers ; No. 73
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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Job loss
Wage loss
Linked Employer-Employee Data
Specific Human Capital
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kauhanen, Antti
Riukula, Krista
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kauhanen, Antti
- Riukula, Krista
- The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Time of origin
- 2019
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