Job loss & displacement
What happens to workers' careers and earnings after losing a job — through displacement, automation, or outsourcing — and how well social insurance cushions the shock.
Working papers
Technological Change, Job Loss and Disability Insurance
Wiljan van den Berge, Bram Wouterse
2026
Domestic Outsourcing and Worker Outcomes: Evidence from Staffing Firms
Maarten Goos, Anna Salomons, Bas Scheer, Wiljan van den Berge
R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics · 2025
The Effect of Adverse Life-Events on Income Trajectories
Simon Rabaté, Maxime Tô, Julie Tréguier, Willem van der Wal, Wiljan van den Berge
CPB Discussion Paper · 2025
Published
What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?
James Bessen, Maarten Goos, Anna Salomons, Wiljan van den Berge
Review of Economics and Statistics 107(1), 125–141 · 2025
Labour Market Effects of Job Displacement for Prime-Age and Older Workers
Anja Deelen, Marloes de Graaf-Zijl, Wiljan van den Berge
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7(3) · 2018