RUI: Industrial and Occupational Mobility following Job Displacement

自上世纪70年代末以来，由于国际竞争加剧、技术变革、经济深度衰退以及需求结构的变化，数以百万计的工人因工厂关闭或大规模减产而下岗。失业工人的适应能力，是经济对结构变化整体反应的重要组成部分。该项目的目的是分析工业和职业流动以及流离失所后的失业和收入的决定因素。还将考察黑人和白人在工业和职业流动性方面的差异。这项研究将使用两部门模型来分析求职，该模型将使用失业工人调查的数据进行估计。产业和职业变化的问题引入了样本选择问题，这些问题将在实证分析中得到解决。这项研究得到了本科生机构研究计划的支持，该项目之所以重要，是因为它可能为劳动力市场政策的设计提供新的见解。

Since the late 1970's, increasing international competition, technological change, a deep recession, and changes in the composition of demand haver led to the displacement of millions of workers from their jobs because of plant closings or large-scale reductions in operations. The adaptability of displaced workers, is an important component of the economy's overall response to structural change. The purpose of this project is to analyze the determinants of industrial and occupational mobility and post- displacement joblessness and earnings. Differences between blacks and whites in industrial and occupational mobility will also be examined. The study will analyze job search with a two sector model which will be estimated using data from the Displaced Worker Surveys. Questions of industrial and occupational change introduce sample selection issues and these concerns will be addressed in the empirical analysis. This research is supported under the Research at Undergraduate Institutions Program, and the project is important because it may provide new insights for the design of labor market policies.