| Till Marco von Wachter
Associate Professor
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CVPDF Format(Updated November 2009) Publications"Does Wage Persistence Matter for Employment Fluctuations? Evidence from Displaced Workers"(joint with Johannes Schmieder, Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics) "Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis using Administrative Data" (joint with Daniel Sullivan, August 2009, Quarterly Journal of Economics) (this is an updated version of NBER Working Paper No. 13626) PRESS COVERAGE Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Laid-off workers face increased premature death risk Boston Globe Worse Than Fired, September 2009 AARP Magazine Laid Off!, April 2009 "Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data" (joint with Daniel Sullivan, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2009) "Do Initial Conditions Persist Between Firms? An Analysis of Firm-Entry Cohort Effects and Job Losers using Matched Employer-Employee Data" (joint with Stefan Bender, published in S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, F. Andersson, and T. von Wachter (eds), "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches", 2008, University Chicago Press) >>>> Book Now Available from NBER Website "Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation" (joint with Steve Pischke, 2008, Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 90, No. 3) (also available as NBER Working Paper No. 11414) "Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy" (joint with Julian di Giovanni and Justin McCrary, Accepted, 2007, Review of Economics and Statistics) (also available as IMF Working Paper WP/05/86 ) In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers (joint with Stefan Bender, December 2006, American Economic Review) Downloadable Appendices Longer Working Paper Version (IZA Working Paper No. 1348) Working Papers - Job Displacement"Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Mass-Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using LongitudinalAdministrative Data from 1974 to 2004" (joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester) PRESS COVERAGE New York Times (Front Page) Income Loss Persists Long After Layoffs, August 2009 Financial Times A recession-proof career path? Only for the lucky ones, August 2009 Chicago Tribune Laid off? You'll likely never make as much, May 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer (Front Page) Bleak lesson: For most jobless, loss of earnings permanent, Sep 2009 WNYC Radio, The Brian Lehrer Show Earnings Down, August 2009 CBS Money Watch The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?, June 2009 Bloomberg News Great Recession Will Redefine Full Employment as Jobs Vanish, May 2009 CNN Radio Houston Morning Show with Brent Clanton, August 2009 CNN Radio Atlanta News, August 2009 "Estimating the 'True' Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000" (joint with Andrew Hildreth and Elizabeth Weber) "Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using Longitudinal Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004" (joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester, Columbia University, Dep. of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 0708-16) Working Papers - Long-Term Labor Market Dynamics"Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates"(joint with Phil Oreopoulos and Andrew Heisz) (this is an updated version of NBER Working Paper No. w12159) Additional Appendices as Part of IZA Discussion Paper No. 3578 PRESS COVERAGE Wall Street Journal, The Curse of the Class of 2009, May 2009 KQED/NPR "Forum", Job Prospects for College Grads, February 2009 New York Times, Hello Young Workers: One Way to Reach the Top is To Start There, May 2006 NBER Digest, The Career Effects Of Graduating In A Recession, November 2006 "Does a Four-Fold Higher Unemployment Rate Make a Difference? Wage Growth and Job Mobility of Young Workers in France, Germany, and the United States" (joint with Paola Giuliano) Working Papers - Disability and Aging"Trends in Employment and Earnings of Allowed and Rejected Applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance Program"(joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester, Revised & Resubmit, American Economic Review) "The End of Mandatory Retirement in the US: Effects on Retirement and Implicit Contracts" (Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 49, University of California Berkeley, 2002) (Updated and Submitted, January 2009) "The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Employment of Workers Nearing Retirement Age" (prepared for Sandell Grant)
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