Involuntary job loss: welfare effects, earnings impacts and policy options

The Costs of Involuntary Job Loss: Impacts on Workers’ Employment and Earnings

This paper examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the employment and earnings of affected workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002–09 period. It focusses on employees who had been working in their job for at least one year before the job loss. The impact of displacement is estimated by using a propensity score matching approach to sele...

Health effects of involuntary job loss among older workers: findings from the health and retirement survey.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the health consequences of involuntary job loss among older workers in the United States. METHODS Using longitudinal data from the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Survey, multivariate regression models were estimated to assess the impact of involuntary job loss on both physical functioning and mental health. Our analysis sample included 209 workers who ...

Commodity price stabilisation: macroeconomic impacts and policy options

A macroeconometric simulation study is undertaken to evaluate the impact of commodity price stabilisation (CPS) schemes for the export tree crop industry in Papua New Guinea. The findings suggest that there is a negligible level of favourable macroeconomic impacts of CPS. Contrary to the expectation, CPS adversely affects the stability of monetary and external sectors (BOP). CPS policy has fail...

The Impacts of Involuntary Cues on Media Effects

In studies of media effects, differences in results are predicted based on the rationale that different media have differential ability to transmit nonverbal communication. We suggest that while this rationale has validity, it is not complete, and that several other factors must be present before media effects will be observed. In this article, we argue that the situational characteristics of t...

Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Current Evidence and Options