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Title: The Consequences of Job Loss for the Likelihood, Extent, and Stability of Later Employment
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1. Geschwender, Laura Ellen
The Consequences of Job Loss for the Likelihood, Extent, and Stability of Later Employment
Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1998
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Family Studies; Gender Differences; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Probit; Part-Time Work; Racial Differences; Sex Equality; Transition, Job to Job; Unemployment

The risk of job loss threatens workers across occupations and industries and alters the quality of life of those who experience it. The purpose of this research is to examine the long-term consequences of job loss for several labor market outcomes, including becoming reemployed, leaving the labor force, working part-time involuntarily and voluntarily, and the likelihood of experiencing subsequent job loss or making other job transitions. I compare the effect of job loss not leaving one's job as well as to other voluntary and involuntary job transitions. Finally, I determine whether the effect of job loss differs by sex, race, and age, thereby exacerbating race and sex inequality in the employment outcomes. Using pooled cross-sectional data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) from 1987 to 1994, I look at each of these outcomes up to five years after the year when I measure whether a job loss or other transition took place. I estimate random-effects probit models to determine the lagged effect of experiencing a job loss or making other job transitions on the employment outcomes for each of the subsequent five years. My research demonstrated that experiencing a job loss did in fact decrease the likelihood of being employed up to four years later and increased the likelihood of leaving the labor force up to five years later, net of control variables and of subsequent job transitions, relative to not leaving one's job. I also found that experiencing a job loss increased the likelihood of working part-time and part-time involuntarily up to five years later. Finally, my research indicated that experiencing a job loss increased the likelihood of experiencing a subsequent job loss and making other subsequent job transitions. The effect of experiencing a job loss did not differ significantly from the effect of making other job transitions. The effect of job loss on the employment outcomes I examined did not differ by sex, race, or age. Taken together, these findings demonstrated that job loss had negative consequences for the likelihood, extent, and stability of later employment for up to five years later.
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Geschwender, Laura Ellen. The Consequences of Job Loss for the Likelihood, Extent, and Stability of Later Employment. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1998.