Job displacement and sectoral mobility

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This paper combines two components of the US Current Population Survey to characterize the relationship between job displacement and sectoral mobility for long-tenured workers over the 1996-2019 period: (1) the cross-sectional Displaced Worker Survey and (2) the 16-month longitudinal design of the Basic Monthly Survey. While displacement negatively correlates with mobility over time, such job loss has a positive causal impact on mobility for displaced workers compared with similar non-displaced workers. Education and industry structure facilitate post-displacement industry switching, and several factors, including business cycles, affect whether the alternative to sectoral mobility is likely to be sameindustry employment or nonemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers ; No. 21-19

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: job displacement ; sectoral mobility ; Current Population Survey ; Displaced WorkerSurvey

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jackson, Osborne
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• (where): Boston, MA
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.29412/res.wp.2021.19
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/250736
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET