Losing work, moving on : international perspectives on worker displacement / Peter J. Kuhn, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuhn, Peter Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Displaced workers--Case studies.

Displaced workers.

Unemployment--Case studies.

Unemployment.

Unemployed--Case studies.

Unemployed.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.

Contents:

1 Summary and Synthesis / Peter J. Kuhn 1

Institutions Affecting Displaced Workers 3

Methodological Lessons for the Study of Displaced Workers and for Cross-National Labor Market Research 13

Within-Country Patterns: Exceptions and Universals 22

Patterns Among Countries 34

Future Directions 48

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 105

Institutional Environment 107

Data 112

Displacement Rates 116

Transitions 124

Appendix Details of Dutch Data Sources 181

3 Worker Displacement in Japan and Canada / Masahiro Abe, Yoshio Higuchi, Peter Kuhn, Masao Nakamura, Arthur Sweetman 195

Employment Adjustment Mechanisms 200

Legislation and Institutions Affecting Displaced Workers 206

General Economic Conditions 220

Rates of Separation and Displacement 221

Labor-Force Transitions After Displacement 231

Wage Changes 235

Combining Incidence and Consequences: The Prevalence of Severe Separation-Induced Wage Loss 243

Emerging Issues: Where to Go From Here? 245

Appendix Japanese Industries Eligible for Employment Maintenance and Adjustment Subsidies 293

4 They Get Knocked Down. Do They Get Up Again? / Jeff Borland, Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, Jonathan Wadsworth 301

Labor Market Background 303

Institutions 306

Results 319

Appendix Data Construction 365

5 Worker Displacement in France and Germany / Stefan Bender, Christian Dustmann, David Margolis, Costas Meghir 375

Institutions 377

Data 387

Appendix A Correction for False Firm Deaths in France 445

Appendix B Definitions of Displacement 447

Appendix C Impact of Retirement Constraint in France 449

Appendix D Descriptive Statistics for France 451

Appendix E Treatment of Censoring in Germany 453

Appendix F Descriptive Statistics for Germany 455

Appendix G Probit Models for the Incidence of Displacement Using the Continuously Employed as the Reference Group in France 459

Appendix H Weibull Proportional Hazard Model for Germany 461

Appendix I Estimates comparing Different Definitions of Displacement for Germany 465

6 Employment Protection and the Consequences for Displaced Workers / Karsten Alboek, Marc Van Audenrode, Martin Browning 471

Labor Market Institutions 472

Data 478

Results 481

Appendix Data Selection and Definitions 505

2.1 Netherlands: The Annual Rate of Displacement 120

2.2 United States: Labor Force Participation Rates of Displaced and Nondisplaced Males 136

2.3 United States: Retirement/Disability Rates of Displaced and Nondisplaced Males 136

3.1 Wage Profiles by Age and Education, Japan 201

3.2 Shukko and Age Distribution of Workers at a Large Japanese Steel Company, 1977 203

3.3 Methods of Employment Adjustment at Manufacturing Establishments between 1987 (Q1) and 1994 (Q2) 204

5.1 Kaplan-Meier Survivor Functions, France 401

5.2 Kaplan-Meier Survivor Functions, Germany 404

5.3 Average Daily Earnings Over Time by Type of Separation, France 406

5.4 Average Daily Earnings Over Time by Type of Separation, Germany 409

C.1 Impact of Retirement Constraint by Age at First Separation for France 449.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0880992336

OCLC:

49743688