Earnings losses and labor mobility over the life cycle
Large and persistent earnings losses following displacement have adverse consequences for the individual worker and the macroeconomy. Leading models cannot explain their size and disagree on their sources. Two mean-reverting forces make earnings losses transitory in these models: search as an upward force allows workers to climb back up the job ladder, and separations as a downward force make non-displaced workers fall down the job ladder. [The authors] show that job stability at the top rather than search frictions at the bottom is the main driver of persistent earnings losses. [They] provide... Show more
Authors: Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz
Published: Munich, Germany, Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilians University, 2017
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: [98] p.
Access item: https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp6552.pdf
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