Title

From One Job to the Next: Worker Adjustment in a Changing Labor Market

Year

1989

Abstract

The authors discuss how the structure of job opportunities has changed over the last two decades; specifically the transfer of jobs from manufacturing to service industries. They then link these changes to issues of worker displacement policy and worker mobility.

Contents

  1. Worker Adjustment in Perspective
  2. Challenges of a Changing Labor Market
  3. The Road to Recovery
  4. Creating a Responsive Policy Strategy

Sponsorship

Prepared by Abt Associates Inc. under a research grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

ISBN

9780880990776 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Job security; Job stability