Title

Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement

Year

2002

Abstract

This volume presents a collaborative effort by 22 labor economists who examine worker displacement and the attempts to address it in 10 industrialized countries. Using large nationally-representative data sets and detailed policy analysis, the authors focus on two key questions related to worker displacement: 1) whether the experiences of displaced workers in the Untied States, and the patterns of experiences across workers, echo patterns seen in other developed countries, and 2) what can be learned, both from the similarities and from the differences across countries?

Contents

  1. Summary and Synthesis / Peter J. Kuhn
  2. Displaced Workers in the United States and the Netherlands / Jaap H. Abbring, Gerard J. van den Berg, Pieter A. Gautier, A. Gijsbert C. van Lomwel, Jan C. van Ours, Christopher J. Ruhm
  3. Worker Displacement in Japan and Canada / Masahiro Abe, Yoshio Higuchi, Peter Kuhn, Masao Nakamura, Arthur Sweetman
  4. They Get Knocked Down. Do They Get Up Again? / Jeff Borland, Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, Jonathan Wadsworth
  5. Worker Displacement in France and Germany / Stefan Bender, Christian Dustmann, David Margolis, Costas Meghir
  6. Employment Protection and the Consequences for Displaced Workers / Karsten Albaek, Marc Van Audenrode, Martin Browning

ISBN

9780880992343 (cloth)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Job security; Dislocated workers