Losing Work, Moving On

International Perspectives on Worker Displacement

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This volume presents a collaborative effort by 22 labor economists who examine worker displacement and the attempts to address it in 10 industrialized countries. Using large nationally-representative data sets and detailed policy analysis, the authors focus on two key questions related to worker displacement: 1) whether the experiences of displaced workers in the Untied States, and the patterns of experiences across workers, echo patterns seen in other developed countries, and 2) what can be learned, both from the similarities and from the differences across countries?

For instance, do commonalities in displaced workers' experiences across all countries reveal fundamental features of modern industrialized economies? Are international differences informative about the efficacy of different public policy approaches to worker displacement across countries?

Within-country patterns are described using a number of demographic characteristics including age, tenure, gender, and skill level. Results are also offered from cross-national comparisons in the levels of key variables (such as the frequency of displacement, and the duration of post-displacement unemployment) and the association of these variables with international differences in labor market structure. While these sorts of results are generally the most difficult to generate, they are potentially the most rewarding. And in the case of these efforts, they are thought-provoking as well. Included are

• Summary and Synthesis, Peter J. Kuhn
• 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, and Christopher J. Ruhm
• Worker Displacement in Japan and Canada, Masahiro Abe, Yoshio Higuchi, Peter Kuhn, Masao Nakamura, and Arthur Sweetman
• They Get Knocked Down. Do They Get Up Again?, Jeff Borland, Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, and Jonathan Wadsworth
• Worker Displacement in France and Germany, Stefan Bender, Christian Dustmann, David Margolis, and Costas Meghir
• Employment Protection and the Consequences for Displaced Workers, Karsten Alboek, Marc Van Audenrode, and Martin Browning

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