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Beyond Lost Earnings: The Long-Term Impact of Job Displacement on Workers’ Commuting Behavior

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  • Duan, Yige

    (University of British Columbia)

  • Jost, Oskar

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

  • Jost, Ramona

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

Abstract

"We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers’ commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers’ places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer matched data and an event study design, we identify the causal effect of job loss on workers displaced during a mass layoff. Conditional on finding a new job, workers’ commuting distance and commuting time rise sharply after displacement and gradually decline in subsequent years. The recovery is due to employer changes rather than migration, and a larger increase in commuting would mitigate the wage loss due to job displacement. To rationalize our findings, we build an on-the-job search model with heterogeneous firm productivity and commuting distances. Our model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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  • Duan, Yige & Jost, Oskar & Jost, Ramona, 2022. "Beyond Lost Earnings: The Long-Term Impact of Job Displacement on Workers’ Commuting Behavior," IAB-Discussion Paper 202215, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    • Handle: RePEc:iab:iabdpa:202215
    DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2215
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    1. Rud, Juan-Pablo & Simmons, Michael & Toews, Gerhard & Aragon, Fernando, 2024. "Job displacement costs of phasing out coal," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 236(C).
    2. Ramona Jost, 2024. "Persistence of commuting habits: context effects in Germany," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 72(3), pages 837-862, March.
    3. Oskar Jost & Holger Seibert, 2022. "Homeoffice spart ein Zehntel Treibstoff ein [Home Office Saves a Tenth of Fuel]," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 102(7), pages 540-544, July.

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    JEL classification:

    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General

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