The author's comment on a previous article by Vladimir Stoikov which discussed the feasibility of new employees in a seasonal industry accepting an income lower than the normal compensation because they anticipated that in the future they would acquire enough seniority to remain permanently employed in the same activity. (BC)

As the economy grew in the mid-1900s, job loss declined and the rate of reemployment rose. Job losses that did occur were more widely dispersed across industries and occupations than in earlier years. (Author)

Discusses General Electric Company's comprehensive efforts to retrain and assist displaced employees at their Major Appliance Business Group in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Aerospace Lanham Center Operations in Lanham, Maryland. (JOW)

The Dislocated Worker Survey underestimates the number of displaced for 1979-89 by about one-third. The bias results from the fact that respondents' memory of displacement over time, especially among blacks, people without a college education, and people with short tenure with an employer. (SK)

During the 1980s, Black workers were more apt to be displaced than Whites because of the industries and occupations in which they were concentrated. They were also less likely to be reemployed and were out of work for longer periods. (JOW)

Application of queuing theory to displaced-worker data indicates that White men head the queue in reemployment after displacement. White women experience gender discrimination, Black men are racially disadvantaged and do not benefit from gender, Black women are doubly disadvantaged, and Hispanic men benefit from gender. (SK)

It was the year 2002. Ohio was reeling from a decline in the manufacturing sector, which left thousands of northwestern Ohio workers unemployed. When the U.S. economy suffers from a recession, states like Ohio that rely heavily upon employment in manufacturing experience the impact first, according to Neal Eiber of Apollo Career Center Adult…

Describes the community-wide effects on employment, earnings, and labor mobility of the severe employment declines that occurred in Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1960s. Discusses policy implications. (JOW)

Asserts that technology has caused changes that created gaps in the careers of many individuals. Presents proposal to develop counseling system for individuals to begin at the formative years of their careers. (Author/NB)

Interviewed 21 displaced workers regarding factors affecting their participation in training programs funded by Job Training Partnership Act. Found that educational, work and layoff, and personal factors differentiated between participants and nonparticipants. Nonparticipants seemed more focused on present or past, whereas participants seemed to…

Analysis of data from 2,542 respondents in the 1988 Displaced Workers Survey assessed the effects of written advance notice of plant closings on reemployment and earnings. Results suggest that notification was effective in reducing earnings losses and the probability of unemployment only when received two months before the plant closing. (SK)

During 1995 to 1996, the number of workers who lost jobs declined and the proportion that was reemployed rose. Compared with the previous Displaced Worker Survey, displaced workers spent fewer weeks without work and suffered less severe earnings losses. (Author)

Scully-Russ (2005) described the low-wage labor market issue and the tendency in academic literature to view the problem as "fixing" the skills of low wageworkers. However, the article does not address instructional design issues surrounding low-wage employee training interventions. This manuscript attempts to discover the key factors surrounding…

The Redundancy Payments Act of 1965 established the idea that an employee has property rights to a job based on years of company service. It instituted an entitlement program for displaced workers sponsored by firms and the government. The British layoff situtation differs from that of the United States. (Author/CH)

The author argues for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Topics include the following needs: (1) increased productivity, (2) global competitiveness, (3) technological updating, (4) dislocated worker retraining, (5) quality of life, and (6) dropout programs. (CH)