%0 Report
        %A Blien, Uwe
%A Dauth, Wolfgang
%A Roth, Duncan H.W.
        %T Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12851
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12851
        %X This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations suffer larger and more persistent earnings losses after the mass layoff. Furthermore, we are able to show that, at least initially, earnings losses are primarily due to a reduction in the number of days in employment, suggesting that routine-intensive workers face considerable frictions in the adjustment to job loss. Conditional on finding a new job, routine-intensive workers are more likely to change their occupations but end up systematically in the lower end of their new occupation's wage distribution.
        %K routine-replacing technological change
%K routine-intensity
%K labour market biographies
%K mass layoffs
%K Germany
%K difference-in-differences