The Plight of Older Workers : : Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector.

• Superior document: Life Course Research and Social Policies Series ; v.5
• Author: Baumann, Isabel.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2016.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Life Course Research and Social Policies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Understanding the Impact of Plant Closure on Workers' Careers and Lives -- Using Plant Closure Data and a Tailor-Made Survey Design -- Unequal Outcomes -- Contributions to the Scholarly Literature -- Contributions to the Policy Debate -- Structure -- References -- Chapter 1: The Debate About the Consequences of Job Displacement -- 1.1 Career Prospects After Job Loss -- 1.1.1 A Growing Body of Plant Closure Literature -- 1.1.2 Reemployment -- 1.1.3 Job Search -- 1.1.4 Retirement, Exit from the Labor Force and Repeated Job Loss -- 1.2 Type and Quality of the Post-displacement Job -- 1.2.1 Reemployment Sectors and Occupations -- 1.2.2 Determinants of Post-displacement Wages -- 1.2.3 Changes in Job Quality -- 1.3 Sociability and Well-Being -- 1.3.1 Coping Strategies on the Household Level -- 1.3.2 Sociability -- 1.3.3 Subjective Well-Being -- 1.4 Our Model of Occupational Transition After Plant Closure and Hypotheses -- References -- Chapter 2: A Tailor-Made Plant Closure Survey -- 2.1 Plant Closure Data as a Way to Avoid Selection Bias -- 2.2 Sampling -- 2.3 Survey Bias -- 2.4 Data Collection -- 2.5 Identifying the Presence of Bias in Our Data -- 2.6 Constructing a Non-experimental Control Group -- 2.7 Limits -- 2.8 The Institutional Context of the Swiss Labor Market -- 2.9 Aggregate Unemployment -- References -- Chapter 3: Reemployment or Unemployment -- 3.1 Labor Market Status Two Years After Displacement -- 3.2 Labor Market Status by Socio-demographic Characteristics -- 3.3 Determinants of Reemployment -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Early Retirement and Exit from the Labor Force -- 4.1 Transition into Early Retirement -- 4.2 Determinants of Early Retirement -- 4.3 Exit from the Labor Force -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 5: Job Search Strategies and Unemployment Duration -- 5.1 Job Search Strategies -- 5.1.1 The Application Process -- 5.2 Other Strategies of Job Search: Commuting, Training, Temporary Jobs -- 5.3 Unemployment Duration -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Sectors and Occupations of the New Jobs -- 6.1 Sectors -- 6.2 Sectors in Which Workers Were Reemployed -- 6.3 Determinants of Sectoral Change -- 6.4 Determinants of Switching into Different Subsector in the Services -- 6.5 Occupations of Reemployment -- 6.6 Determinants of Occupational Change -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Wages -- 7.1 Wage Distribution Before and After Displacement -- 7.2 Average Wage Change -- 7.3 Distribution of Wage Change -- 7.4 Determinants of Wage Change -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Job Quality -- 8.1 Contract Type -- 8.2 Subjective Job Security -- 8.3 Skill Match -- 8.4 Job Authority -- 8.5 Job Satisfaction -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Linked Lives and Well-Being -- 9.1 Coping Strategies -- 9.2 Sociability -- 9.3 Subjective Well-Being -- 9.4 Unemployed Workers' Changes in Life Satisfaction -- 9.5 Reemployed Workers' Change in Life Satisfaction -- 9.6 Changes in Workers' Health -- 9.7 Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- Robust Job Prospects in Manufacturing -- Polarization in Labor Market Experiences -- Old Age as the Main Disadvantage -- Tackling the Plight of Older Workers -- Annex -- Tables -- Figures -- References -- Index.