TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Arntz, Melanie
AU  - Ivanov, Boris
AU  - Pohlan, Laura
        TI  - Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss
        PY  - 2022/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15313
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15313
        AB  - Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to show that the individual costs of job loss strongly depend on the task-bias of regional structural change. 
Workers displaced from routine manual occupations have substantially higher and more persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility partly serve as an adjustment mechanism, but come at high cost as these switches also involve losses in firm wage premia. Non-displaced workers, by contrast, remain largely unaffected by structural change.
        KW  - routine-biased structural change
KW  - local labor markets
KW  - displacement
KW  - mass-layoffs
KW  - plant closures
KW  - matching
KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - event study
        ER  -