Do more-educated workers fare better following job displacement?

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: August 1, 1989| Author: Podgursky, Michael; Swaim, Paul | Copyright information

Do more-educated workers fare better following job displacement? Increased international competition and capital mobility, new workplace technologies, and structural changes in industry continue to focus attention on the problem of job displacement and on labor market policies to reduce and more equitably distribute the costs of such changes. [1] It has been argued that the ongoing--and perhaps accelerating--process of structural economic change has increased employers' demand for h...

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