Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34968 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3617
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 workers. 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.
Subjects: 
Firm specific human capital
plant closures
matching
JEL: 
J14
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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