Policies for displaced workers: an American perspective
American employment policy for displaced workers started in the Great Depression with programs for the employment service, unemployment insurance, work experience, and direct job creation. Assistance for workers displaced by foreign competition emerged in the 1960s along with formalized programs for occupational job skill training. The policy focus on displaced workers was sharpened in the 1980s through the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act. Field experiments on services to dislocated workers led to Worker Profil ... Show more
Authors: O'Leary, Christopher J.
Published: Kalamazoo, Michigan, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2010
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 60 p.
Access item: http://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1187&context=up_workingpapers
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