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Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | Employment and well-being after plant closure : survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run |
Authors: | Oesch, Daniel Köster, Fiona Studer, Matthias Baumann, Isabel |
et. al: | No |
DOI: | 10.1177/0143831X231209825 10.21256/zhaw-29604 |
Published in: | Economic and Industrial Democracy |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Sage |
ISSN: | 0143-831X 1461-7099 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Industrial worker; Life satisfaction; Mass redundancy; Unemployment; Wage |
Subject (DDC): | 331: Labor economics |
Abstract: | How does plant closure affect the employment and well-being of displaced workers? This article presents the results of two surveys of workers at five manufacturing plants two and 11 years after mass layoffs. After two years, two-thirds of displaced workers had been re-employed, one in five workers was still unemployed, and one in 10 workers had retired. A decade after the plant closures, unemployment had fallen below 5%. Overall, post-displacement outcomes in Switzerland were more favourable than in other European plant closures. However, age disparities loomed large. Older workers struggled to find new jobs and often had to accept large wage cuts and unstable jobs. In particular, many workers in their late forties and early fifties were hit hard as they were too young to benefit from early retirement, but too old to start over. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29604 |
Related research data: | https://www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue/studies/10612/12999/overview |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial 4.0 International |
Departement: | School of Health Sciences |
Organisational Unit: | Institute of Public Health (IPH) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen Gesundheit |
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Oesch, D., Köster, F., Studer, M., & Baumann, I. (2023). Employment and well-being after plant closure : survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run. Economic and Industrial Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231209825
Oesch, D. et al. (2023) ‘Employment and well-being after plant closure : survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run’, Economic and Industrial Democracy [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231209825.
D. Oesch, F. Köster, M. Studer, and I. Baumann, “Employment and well-being after plant closure : survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, doi: 10.1177/0143831X231209825.
OESCH, Daniel, Fiona KÖSTER, Matthias STUDER und Isabel BAUMANN, 2023. Employment and well-being after plant closure : survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run. Economic and Industrial Democracy. 2023. DOI 10.1177/0143831X231209825
Oesch, Daniel, Fiona Köster, Matthias Studer, and Isabel Baumann. 2023. “Employment and Well-Being after Plant Closure : Survey Evidence from Switzerland on the Mid and Long Run.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231209825.
Oesch, Daniel, et al. “Employment and Well-Being after Plant Closure : Survey Evidence from Switzerland on the Mid and Long Run.” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231209825.
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