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June 2001

Worker displacement in a strong labor market

Ryan T. Helwig

As economic growth continued in 1997 and 1998, job losses declined, and the displacement rate was the lowest of the 1990s; many displaced workers were able to find new jobs with little or no change in weekly earnings

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