Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170878 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10894
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The empirical design eliminates the potential of endogenous selection into labour turnover. The estimates show that displaced workers experience, in addition to substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home. These patterns change over the worker's post-displacement period – the negative displacement effect on wages becomes more pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in the displacement effects. Compared with displaced tenants and outright owners, we find that more leveraged displaced owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher loss in wage.
Subjects: 
commuting distance
geographic mobility
housing tenure
employment
wages
JEL: 
J31
J32
J63
J65
R21
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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