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Title: Job Displacement of Established Women Workers: Correlates and Employment Consequences
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Gagen, Mary G. |
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Job Displacement of Established Women Workers: Correlates and Employment Consequences Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1987. DAI-A 48/09, p. 2464, Mar 1988 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Educational Attainment; Firms; Industrial Sector; Women The theories, correlates and consequences of permanent job loss were investigated, for the NLS Mature Women's cohort, using a subset of workers who were established in their jobs over the years 1969 to 1981. This approach focuses on the job loss event itself, in contrast to the prevailing practice of studying displaced workers from cases of plant shutdowns or from a population of unemployed workers. Theories which could explain labor force reductions were surveyed from across disciplines in order to derive a set of variables for use in a displacement model. The theories tend to focus on either characteristics of the firm or on characteristics of individual workers to explain the incidence of displacement across the workforce. It was shown that there was a fairly high degree of convergence among theories in terms of predictor variables. Displacement was found to be related more closely to structural features, associated with firms, than to characteristics of the individuals who lost their jobs. The industry of employment was the single largest predictor of displacement. Specifically, manufacturing, traditional services and wholesale/retail trade displaced workers at approximately equal rates. In contrast, professional and business services confer relative immunity to job loss, at least over the period studied. This finding offers a different profile of displaced workers from that described in the large body of plant shutdown literature, but supports findings from other national samples. Recent layoffs are also strong predictors of displacement. Education tended to prevent displacement. Consequences of displacement were similar to that described in the plant closing literature: unemployment, wage erosion and leaving the labor force were typical, and persistent. Multinomial logit of employment status was used to analyze displacement's effects on unemployment, labor force leaving and employment rates. The model explains more about labor force leaving than it does of unemployment, although displacement significantly affects both. Policy implications were discussed. [UMI ADG87- 26632] |
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Gagen, Mary G. Job Displacement of Established Women Workers: Correlates and Employment Consequences. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1987. DAI-A 48/09, p. 2464, Mar 1988. |