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Workforce Economics, 1996
Although conventional wisdom indicates that temporary workers are becoming the norm and full-time workers are becoming an anachronism, statistics do not bear this position out. The truth includes the following facts: (1) companies are using more temporary workers, but these new employment arrangements provide new entry points into the labor market…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Workforce Economics, 1996
Although the general perception in the United States may be that downsizing in companies is pervasive and increasing, the facts show a slowing of the trend in downsizing and a net gain in employment. Many workers have found new jobs at or near their former pay rates, although only half of older workers are able to find jobs comparable to the ones…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economic Change, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Agriculture and Rural Economics Div. – 1987
Seventeen papers review recent changes in the structure and performance of the rural economy and examine alternative policies to facilitate the adjustment of displaced people and their communities. Some point to economic structural change in the 1980s as the cause of financial stress in rural America, in sharp contrast with the 1970s when growth…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Government Role, Policy Formation
Rones, Philip L.; Herz, Diane E. – 1989
This document analyzes the labor market problems of displaced older workers. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 describes the magnitude of the problems of unemployment, discouragement, and displacement of older workers. The outcomes of unemployment are discussed, with attention to the duration of unemployment, the effects of displacement, and…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Dismissal (Personnel), Employed Women, Employment Opportunities