Unemployment and Re-Employment of Displaced Workers

Productivity Commission Working Paper No. 1642

113 Pages Posted: 29 May 2001

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Greg Murtough

Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Productivity Commission

Matthew Waite

Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Productivity Commission

Date Written: October 19, 2000

Abstract

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 percent. The paper shows that the probability of retrenchment and the nature of post-retrenchment adjustment varies between different groups of workers and depends on general economic conditions.

Keywords: unemployment, re-employment, employment, displaced workers, labor, retrenchment, occupations, casual employment, job

JEL Classification: J

Suggested Citation

Murtough, Greg and Waite, Matthew, Unemployment and Re-Employment of Displaced Workers (October 19, 2000). Productivity Commission Working Paper No. 1642, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=270781 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.270781

Greg Murtough (Contact Author)

Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Productivity Commission ( email )

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Matthew Waite

Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Productivity Commission

Level 28
35 Collins St.
Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria 3000
Australia

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