Special government assistance to defense-dependent industry workers: The case of the aerospace industry From: Contemporary Economic Policy | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: Schoeni, Robert F; Dardia, Michael | Copyright Western Economic Association Jul 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ROBERT F. SCHOENI and MICHAEL DARDIA*

The end of the Cold War brought profound changes to defense-dependent sectors of the civilian economy. The aerospace industry has been at the vortex of these contractions. Based on the assumption that aerospace workers suffered unique hardships, the federal government established special programs to assist them. This study tests that broad assumption using unique administrative data from California. Although some aerospace workers suffered substan...

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