Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/112981 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Labor 4 No. D17-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
The aim of the paper is to examine the consequences of displacement on unemployment duration. Due to ex-ante asymmetric information about the productivity of unemployed applicants, prospective employers use the type of displacement as a costless signal about the ability of the worker when making hiring decisions. While individual layoffs might be caused by workers low productivity, plant closures can be considered as exogenous. Consequently, individual layoffs might attach a negative productivity signal to the worker resulting in longer unemployment duration. To test this hypothesis we use administrative linked employer-employee data for Germany which not only contain daily information on unemployment duration but also allows us to control for the type of displacement. We show that workers displaced due to plant closures and downsizings find indeed significantly faster a new job. We also find the strengths of the signaling value to be proportional to the share of displaced workers.
JEL: 
J64
J65
J68
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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