The Great Recession and Job Loss Spillovers : Impact of Tradable Employment Shocks on Supporting Services

This paper explores the spillover effects of job losses via input-output linkages during the Great Recession. Exploiting exogenous variation in tradable employment shocks across U.S. counties, the paper finds that job losses in a county’s tradable sectors cause further job losses in the county’...

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Ha, Rezaei, Shawheen, Agarwal, Divya
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25818518/great-recession-job-loss-spillovers-impact-tradable-employment-shocks-supporting-services
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23715