Job Displacement and Labor Market Mobility

摘要

The study examines labor market mobility of dislocated workers. An analysis is made of matching data from the 1984, 1986, and 1988 Displaced Worker Supplements (DWS) to the Current Population Surveys (CPS) of the same years. The first of two main sections in the report focuses on industrial and occupational mobility among displaced workers. About one-half of the dislocated workers ultimately change industry or occupation -- workers who change one usually change the other as well. Reemployment earnings are substantially lower for displaced workers who do change to a different industry or occupation. The second main section of the study compares geographic mobility of displaced workers versus nondisplaced workers. Among men, displaced workers have much higher geographic mobility than nondisplaced workers. Among women, there is little difference in geographic mobility between displaced and nondisplaced workers.