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.