Mobility and Situational Factors in the Adjustment of Older Workers to Job Displacement

Research on unemployment in the United States has focused mainly on a description of the economic and social consequences resulting from the loss of work. Few attempts have been made to relate these consequences to mobility and situational variables associated with unemployment and re-employment experience. In a phenomenon as complex as unemployment, it is indeed an extensive task to trace the linkages between these variables and their consequences, much less to assign a measure of relative influence to mobility or situational factors. Empirical research on unemployment, however, contains a number of assumptions about these variables and their relationship to the social and psychological consequences of the loss of work. It is the purpose of this paper to report on research that was primarily concerned with (1) a determination of mobility and situational factors linked to the behavior and attitudes of job-displaced workers, and (2) an examination of the unique influence of each variable in explaining the

Demographic economics · Displacement (psychology) · Economics · Labour economics · Occupational mobility · Psychotherapist · Situational ethics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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