Job Displacement and Sectoral Mobility

Osborne Jackson

No 21-19, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Abstract: 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 same-industry employment or nonemployment.

Keywords: Displaced Worker Survey; job displacement; sectoral mobility; Current Population Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2021-10-01
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DOI: 10.29412/res.wp.2021.19

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