The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany

We would like to thank the Research Data Center of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) for generously providing data and support by running programs remotely. We would like to thank Stefan Bender, Stephane Bonhomme, David Card, Pat Kline, Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, Thibaut Lamadon, Raffaele Saggio as well as seminar participants at Boston University, the Richmond Fed, University of Mannheim, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, the New York Fed, University of Siena, Aarhus University, University of Trier, as well as participants at the All California Labor Conference, the NBER Labor Studies Meeting, the AEA Meetings in Chicago, the Bank of Italy/CEPR Conference, University of British Columbia, Briq Workshop on Firms and Inequality in Bonn, and the meetings of Verein fuer Sozialpolitik, the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), and the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL) for many helpful comments. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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