TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Malik, Sara
AU  - Rabier, MaryJane
        TI  - A Word of WARN-ing: Advance Notice of Layoffs and Labor Market Outcomes
        PY  - 2025/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18166
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18166
        AB  - This study investigates the impact of state-level Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Acts on advance notice and post-displacement labor market outcomes for U.S. workers from 1993 to 2019. State WARN adoption increases the likelihood of receiving 30+ days of notice by about 4 percentage points. Instrumental variables estimates, supplemented with local average response functions to address weak instruments, show that lengthy notice reduces immediate joblessness by 4 to 7 percentage points. The effects are most pronounced for low-skill workers. Longer term outcomes are less robust. The results indicate that enforceable mandates improve short run transitions, particularly for vulnerable workers.
        KW  - advance notice
KW  - layoffs
KW  - WARN
        ER  -