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Swaim, Paul; Podgursky, Michael – Journal of Human Resources, 1990
A sequential-regimes job search model tested the effect of advanced notice on the duration of joblessness. Maximum likelihood estimates using data from the 1984 and 1986 Dislocated Worker Surveys demonstrated that advance knowledge significantly shortened joblessness for most labor force groups. (SK)
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Efficiency, Job Search Methods, Labor Economics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
A study examined the Canadian-American Plant Closing Demonstration Project (CAPCDP) to assess the influence of the labor-management approach on factors critical to project success and to identify practices that enabled the labor-management committees set up under the project to work better. CAPCDPs in Idaho, Michigan, New Jersey, and Vermont were…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Job Layoff, Job Search Methods, Labor Economics
Juravich, Tom; Gall, Gilbert J. – 1989
A study asked trade union leaders in Pennsylvania about present and future levels of worker dislocation, how familiar they were with programs for dislocated workers, what factors caused job dislocation, and what factors affected the use of existing programs. Data were collected through a telephone survey of all 1,824 local unions who were…
Descriptors: Career Change, Dislocated Workers, Dismissal (Personnel), Employment Patterns
Kolberg, William H., Ed. – 1983
This book examines the causes of worker displacement in the United States in the context of national economic change. It discusses the promising, through scattered, efforts already underway to help dislocated workers and outlines more far-reaching steps that can be taken with assistance of the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. The book…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change