Geographic Mobility and the Costs of Job Loss

Abstract: This paper uses data from the 1968 through 1997 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze how the long-term costs of job loss vary by a worker’s post-displacement migration status. Results from the analysis show that those individuals who move within the first 2 years after a job loss experience lower earnings losses, lower reductions in hours worked, and smaller increases in time unemployed when compared to a group of displaced workers who are not geographically mobile during the early years following this life event. Workers who move within the first 2 years after displacement face a lower probability of homeownership when compared to their non-mobile counterparts. However, this lower probability is short-lived.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Geographic Mobility and the Costs of Job Loss ; volume:15 ; number:4 ; year:2015 ; pages:1793-1829 ; extent:37 ; The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy ; 15, Heft 4 (2015), 1793-1829 (gesamt 37)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Jolly, Nicholas A.

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2014-0131
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2408251610263.670858352099
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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