Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250736 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 21-19
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
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 sameindustry employment or nonemployment.
Subjects: 
job displacement
sectoral mobility
Current Population Survey
Displaced WorkerSurvey
JEL: 
J63
J24
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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