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Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data

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  • Kim Huynh
  • Yuri Ostrovsky
  • Robert Petrunia
  • Marcel Voia

    (Carleton University)

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Firm shutdown creates a turbulent situation for workers as it leads directly to layoffs for its workers. An additional consideration is whether a firm's shutdown within an industry creates turbulence for workers at other continuing firms. Using data drawn from the Longitudinal Worker File, a Canadian firm-worker matched employment database, we investigate the impact of industry shutdown rates on workers at continuing firm. This paper exploits variation in shutdown rates across industries and within an industry over time to explain the rate of permanent layoffs and the growth of workers' earnings. We find an increase in industry shutdown rates increases the probability of permanent layoffs and decreases earnings growth for workers at continuing firms.

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  • Kim Huynh & Yuri Ostrovsky & Robert Petrunia & Marcel Voia, 2017. "Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs: evidence from firm-worker matched data," Post-Print hal-03573064, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03573064
    DOI: 10.1186/s40172-017-0057-0
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions

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