The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

Ge, Yuhao ; Lehmann, Hartmut (2013) The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China. Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 46. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/3829. In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE (876). ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal employment relationships or selfemployed or less happy than their non-displaced counterparts. We also look at health and psychic costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or wage penalties, while urban displaced workers incur very large costs in terms of these two outcomes. These results point to segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only migrants among the displaced experience a lowered incidence of self-employment. Also, health costs and psychic costs can be linked to displacement although these costs are not prevalent in a uniform fashion. Stratification of the data by gender, level of development and ownership seems important as it shows substantial heterogeneity of the costs of job loss across these dimensions.

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Monografia (Working paper)
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Ge, Yuhao
Lehmann, Hartmut
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Costs of job loss, worker displacement, propensity score matching, China
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2282-6483
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07 Ott 2013 08:37
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18 Feb 2014 11:54
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