TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blien, Uwe
AU  - Dauth, Wolfgang
AU  - Roth, Duncan H.W.
        TI  - Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12851
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12851
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - routine-replacing technological change
KW  - routine-intensity
KW  - labour market biographies
KW  - mass layoffs
KW  - Germany
KW  - difference-in-differences
        ER  -