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July 1999

Worker displacement in the mid-1990’s

Steven F. Hipple

During 1995-96, the number of workers who lost jobs declined and the proportion that was reemployed rose; compared with the previous survey, displaced workers spent fewer weeks without work and suffered less severe earnings losses

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