Unemployment and Re-employment of Displaced Workers

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Key findings, Overview

1 Introduction
1.1 Defining a displaced worker
1.2 Why displaced workers matter
1.3 Relative importance of job displacements

2 Review of past research
2.1 Methodologies
2.2 Incidence of displacements
2.3 Post-displacement adjustment
2.4 Implications for this study

3 Descriptive analysis of Australian data
3.1 Cross-section analysis
3.2 Time-series analysis
3.3 Key findings

4 Main findings of econometric analysis
4.1 Retrenchment
4.2 Changed labour force status
4.3 Changed occupation or industry
4.4 Changed from full-time to part-time
4.5 Changed from permanent to casual
4.6 Illustrative probabilities

5 Conclusions
5.1 Short term variation in retrenchments
5.2 Structural changes
5.3 Differences in post-retrenchment adjustment
5.4 Implications

APPENDICES

A Summary of econometric methodology and results

B Tables of econometric results

References