Beschreibung

"In this paper, we describe the evolution of earnings and employment, post-displacement and post-other-separation, for workers in France and Germany. The paper describes the institutional context in France and Germany surrounding quits and layoffs. Our analysis focuses on non-employment durations and earnings changes experienced by workers who have stayed with a single firm for at least 4 years as the principal measures of interest. We distinguish between workers who separate from their firm (in the case of France) or plant (in the case of Germany) as a result of a closure, and those who separate for unknown reasons. This last category includes workers who are fired for couse, workers who left the firm (plant) because they received a better offer, and workers who dropped out of the labor force. In both France and Germany, a large share of displaced workers transit to their subsequent emploers without spending any time in non-employment. The share of direct transitions is always higher for displaced workers than for workers that separate for other reasons, and the share of displaced workers making direct transitions is slightly increasing with seniority. There is a larger share of direct transitions in the German data than in the French data. The durations of spells out of the work force, when they occur, are shorter in both countries for displaced workers than for those who separate for other reasons. The gap in the survior functions between displaced and other separating workers is larger in Germany. Estimations of duration models confirm the faster exit of displaced workers in both countries. However, displaced workers with high seniority tend to leave non-employment slower than those with low seniority in France, whereas the reverse is true in Germany. In both countries, we find a result that is different to the majority of North American results on worker displacement. Displacement dous not seem to be associated with large earnings losses." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))