Risk of Labor Displacement and Cross-Industry Labor Mobility

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3139355
AutoresElisabetta Magnani (0000-0002-5156-2463, UNSW Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas593
Fecha de publicación2001-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2695991
OpenAlexW3122392579
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

A well-supported conclusion of previous research is that displacement entails large and persistent costs for workers. It therefore seems reasonable to expect workers to try to anticipate and respond to the risk of displacement. Using 1983-93 data from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics and the Displaced Workers Supplement to the Current Population Survey, the author investigates whether industry-specific measures of job loss risk are correlated with workers' propensity to cross industry lines for new jobs. She finds that a one standard deviation increase in the risk of job loss (an 86% increase from the mean level) increased the probability of inter-sectoral mobility by 10.5% in a sample of white men. Three factors that appreciably increased the likelihood of inter-sectoral mobility in response to job insecurity were voluntary separation from the previous job, high educational attainment, and being currently employed (as opposed to temporarily laid off

Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Displaced workers · Displacement (psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Environmental health · Job loss · Labor mobility · Labour economics · Occupational mobility · Population · Sample (material · Turnover · Unemployment · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies