Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Arbeitspapier

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workes. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent with the idea that firm-specific human capital and internal labor markets are more important in white-collar than in blue collar jobs.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 0801

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
• Thema: Firm Specific Human Capital ; Plant Closures ; Matching

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schwerdt, Guido ; Ichino, Andrea ; Ruf, Oliver ; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf ; Zweimüller, Josef
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
• (wo): Linz
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/115005
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ