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Decomposing the wage losses of displaced workers: the role of the reallocation of workers into firms and job titles
2015
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Publication Year
2015
JEL Code
E21 - Consumption; Saving
E60 - General
F40 - General
Abstract
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this
paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure
based on the comparison of workers’ wages differentials before and after displacement.
Potential wage losses of displaced workers can be related to firm, job title, and match
heterogeneity in the pre- and post-displacement jobs. In this vein, we estimate a threeway
high-dimensional fixed effects regression model that enables us to decompose the
sources of the wage losses into the contribution of firm, job title, and match fixed effects.
The worker-firm match plays a very sizable role. We found that the allocation of workers
into poorer matches accounts for 38 percent of the total average wage loss. Sorting among
firms accounts for 36 percent. Job downgrading also plays a significant role in explaining
the wage loss of displaced workers, accounting for the remaining 26 percent.
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The sources of the wage losses of displaced workers: the role of the reallocation of workers into firms, matches, and job titles