Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34067 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2289
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the long-term earnings losses of displaced workers in Portugal, using a nationally representative longitudinal linked employer-employee data set. The results show that four years after displacement the earnings of displaced workers remain around 9% (women) to 12% (men) below their counterfactual expected levels. The post-displacement earnings losses are mainly associated with the loss of tenure within the firm and, to a lesser extent, to the loss of sector-specific features. Furthermore, workers who experienced a spell of nonemployment are the most affected by job displacement. Finally, this study points to the importance of controlling for employers' characteristics in this type of wages-dynamic analysis, since there are systematic differences in earnings between displaced and non-displaced workers that stem from differences in firm characteristics. Ignoring them may confound the evaluation of the earnings losses.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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