The Nature and Unequal Incidence of Job Displacement Costs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2484698
AutoresThomas S Moore, Thomas Moore (0000-0002-9820-9317, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas230-242
Fecha de publicación1990-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Problems (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/800650
OpenAlexW2046327304
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas27

Structural changes in industry annually displace millions of American workers. As concern over this displacement phenomenon has increased, so too has the effort to define and measure its social costs. Using data from the 1984 and 1986 Displaced Workers Survey, this paper critically examines how displacement has been defined, its costs measured, and its associated joblessness interpreted. The findings are that: (1) the official definition of the displaced worker understates the magnitude of current economic dislocations, (2) the conventional emphasis upon the human capital components of earnings loss obscures the disproportionate impact of displacement upon women and minorities, and (3) voluntaristic interpretations of labor market outcomes are difficult to reconcile with the duration and incidence of post-displacement joblessness. Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the social costs of job displacement

Demographic economics · Displaced person · Displaced workers · Displacement (psychology) · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Incidence (geometry) · Job loss · Labour economics · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies