Big plant closures and local employment

This paper estimates the impact of large plant closures on the local employment in the affected industry. Specifically, we examine the closure of 45 large manufacturing plants in Spain which relocated abroad between 2001 and 2006. We run differences-in-differences specifications in which locations t...

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Autores: Jofre Monseny, Jordi, Sánchez Vidal, María, Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/127743
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/127743
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Localització industrial
Política d'ocupació
Economia urbana
Geografia econòmica
Industrial location
Manpower policy
Urban economics
Economic geography
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spelling Big plant closures and local employmentJofre Monseny, JordiSánchez Vidal, MaríaViladecans Marsal, ElisabetLocalització industrialPolítica d'ocupacióEconomia urbanaGeografia econòmicaIndustrial locationManpower policyUrban economicsEconomic geographyThis paper estimates the impact of large plant closures on the local employment in the affected industry. Specifically, we examine the closure of 45 large manufacturing plants in Spain which relocated abroad between 2001 and 2006. We run differences-in-differences specifications in which locations that experience a closure are matched to locations with similar pre-treatment employment levels and trends. The results show that when a plant closes, for each job directly lost in the plant closure, only between 0.6 and 0.7 jobs are actually lost in the local affected industry. These effects are driven by employment expansions in local incumbent firms and, to a lesser extent, by the creation of new firms in the local industry.Oxford University Press2019201920182019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion24 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/127743Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbx026Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, vol. 18, num. 1, p. 163-186https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbx026cc-by (c) Jofre Monseny, Jordi et al., 2018http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1277432026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Big plant closures and local employment
spellingShingle Big plant closures and local employment
Jofre Monseny, Jordi
Localització industrial
Política d'ocupació
Economia urbana
Geografia econòmica
Industrial location
Manpower policy
Urban economics
Economic geography
title_short Big plant closures and local employment
title_full Big plant closures and local employment
title_fullStr Big plant closures and local employment
title_full_unstemmed Big plant closures and local employment
title_sort Big plant closures and local employment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Jofre Monseny, Jordi
Sánchez Vidal, María
Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
author Jofre Monseny, Jordi
author_facet Jofre Monseny, Jordi
Sánchez Vidal, María
Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
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Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
author2_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Localització industrial
Política d'ocupació
Economia urbana
Geografia econòmica
Industrial location
Manpower policy
Urban economics
Economic geography
topic Localització industrial
Política d'ocupació
Economia urbana
Geografia econòmica
Industrial location
Manpower policy
Urban economics
Economic geography
description This paper estimates the impact of large plant closures on the local employment in the affected industry. Specifically, we examine the closure of 45 large manufacturing plants in Spain which relocated abroad between 2001 and 2006. We run differences-in-differences specifications in which locations that experience a closure are matched to locations with similar pre-treatment employment levels and trends. The results show that when a plant closes, for each job directly lost in the plant closure, only between 0.6 and 0.7 jobs are actually lost in the local affected industry. These effects are driven by employment expansions in local incumbent firms and, to a lesser extent, by the creation of new firms in the local industry.
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