Discussion Paper
Why does unemployment hurt the employed?: evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Meier, Stephan (2008)
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences in the exposure to economic shocks. Public servants have stricter dismissal protection and face a lower risk of their organization's bankruptcy than do private sector employees. The empirical results for individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the ...
Public Policy Discussion Paper , Paper 08-1

Working Paper
Search, self-insurance and job-security provisions
Alvarez, Fernando; Veracierto, Marcelo (1998)
We construct a general equilibrium model to evaluate the quantitative effects of severance payments in the presence of contracting and reallocational frictions. Key elements of the model are: 1) establishment level dynamics, 2) imperfect insurance markets, and 3) variable search decisions. Contrary to previous studies that analyzed severance payments in frictionless environments, we find that severance payments reduce unemployment, produce negative insurance effects and improve levels.
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-98-2

Working Paper
Mortality, mass-layoffs, and career outcomes: an analysis using administrative data
Sullivan, Daniel G.; von Wachter, Till (2006)
Seemingly short-term labor market shocks, such as job displacements, can have persistent effects on workers? earnings, employment, job stability, consumption, and access to health insurance. A long literature suggests such changes in workers? socioeconomic conditions can have potentially important effects on health outcomes, but existing studies associating job loss to health status face several problems of measurement and identification. This paper uses a large longitudinal administrative data set of quarterly earnings and employer records matched to information on individual mortality ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-06-21

Working Paper
Worker insecurity and aggregate wage growth
Aaronson, Daniel; Sullivan, Daniel G. (1999)
To adequately evaluate claims that increased worker insecurity had reduced wage growth in the 1990s, research must answer two questions: (1) Has worker insecurity increase?, and (2) Does worker insecurity reduce wage growth? Examining data on displacement rates from the Displaced Workers Surveys and data on workers' perceptions of job security from the General Social Survey, we conclude that worker insecurity has been high in the 1990s relative to what would have been expected on the basis of the falling unemployment rate. Moreover, examining the relationship between measures of displacement ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-99-30

Journal Article
Special section : Base closures in the Fifth District
Martorana, Megan; Campbell, Doug (2006)
Econ Focus , Volume 10 , Issue Win , Pages 32-33

Journal Article
Grinding gears
Gerena, Charles (2007)
Econ Focus , Volume 11 , Issue Spr , Pages 24-27, 31

Journal Article
Recent research on job stability and security
Valletta, Robert G. (1999)
FRBSF Economic Letter

Newsletter
Recent trends in job displacement
Sullivan, Daniel G.; Aaronson, Daniel (1998)
Chicago Fed Letter , Issue Dec

Journal Article
The decline of job security in the 1990s: displacement, anxiety, and their effect on wage growth
Aaronson, Daniel; Sullivan, Daniel G. (1998)
This article shows that job displacement rates for high-seniority workers and a consistently constructed measure of workers' fears of job loss both rose during the 1990s. It then explores the relationship between these measures of job displacement and worker anxiety and wage growth.
Economic Perspectives , Volume 22 , Issue Q I

Journal Article
Upstairs downstairs: how introducing computer technology changed skills and pay on two floors of Cabot Bank
Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. (2002-04)
Assessing the differing impacts of a new computer technology on skills and pay in two departments of a large bank.
Regional Review , Volume 12 , Issue Q 2