(Mis)Attributing the Causes of American Job Loss

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Job Loss and Job Change

All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more re strained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific co...

The Intergenerational Consequences of Unexpected Job Loss

This paper uses variation induced by mass layoffs and firm closings to explore the intergenerational effects of family income shocks. Previous studies have argued that mass layoffs and firm closings can be thought of as exogenous employment shocks. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows over 100,000 father-child pairs from 1978 to 1999, and includes detailed information abou...

The public health costs of job loss.

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important effects on individual workers' health and associated public health costs. Our...

Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss.