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The Long-Run Cost of Job Loss as Measured by Consumption Changes

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  • Martin Browning
  • Thomas F. Crossley

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The costs of involuntary job loss are of substantial research and policy interest. We consider the measurement of the cost of job displacement with household expenditure data. With a Canadian panel survey of individuals who experienced a job separation, we compare the consumption growth of households that experienced a permanent layoff to a control group of households that experienced a temporary layoff with known recall date. Because the firms employing the latter group are providing insurance, these workers approximate a bench mark of full insurance against job loss shocks. We estimate that permanent layoffs experience an average consumption loss of between 4 and 10 percent. Older workers and workers with high job tenure have losses closer to the top of this range.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers with number 152.

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Length: 55 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2006
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Handle: RePEc:mcm:sedapp:152

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  1. Martin Browning & Thomas F. Crossley & Guglielmo Weber, 2003. "Asking consumption questions in general purpose surveys," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 113(491), pages F540-F567, November.

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