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Impacts of Job Loss on the Careers of Midlife Women: A Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparison with Implications for Rural Labor Policy Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1989. Also: http://books.google.com/books/about/Impacts_of_job_loss_on_the_careers_of_mi.html?id=2NrnNwAACAAJ Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Displaced Workers; Layoffs; Rural Sociology; Rural Women; Rural/Urban Migration; Self-Employed Workers; Wages; Women; Work Histories Job displacement in rural labor markets is especially severe relative to urban economies and to their own robust growth of the late 1960s through mid-1970s. Focusing on midlife women, a population group particularly disadvantaged in seeking new jobs, this dissertation examined displacement losses and adjustment strategies, emphasizing metropolitan/nonmetropolitan comparisons. The analysis uses data collected from the 1967-1984 waves of the Mature Women's cohort. Two sets of empirical issues and one broad policy question were addressed. First, consequences of job loss for women's careers were examined, comparing wage and employment impacts in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Second, for displaced workers, the study analyzed the determinants of adoption of three adjustment strategies and the effects of each strategy on wages and employment status. A final objective was to address the policy question of whether nonmetropolitan areas merit special consideration in the allocation of funds or design of programs for assisting displaced workers. As expected, the components of displacement loss and the larger wage loss among rural women was consistent with a presumed relative lack of adjustment services and alternative job opportunities in rural labor markets. However, the higher rates of reemployment of rural women were a surprising result. Overall, the estimated cost of displacement was somewhat higher for nonmetropolitan residents. |
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Winders, Rebecca M. Impacts of Job Loss on the Careers of Midlife Women: A Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Comparison with Implications for Rural Labor Policy. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1989.. |