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Title: Displacement in Appalachia and the Non-Appalachian United States, 1993-2003: Findings Based on Five Displaced Worker Surveys

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: In the 1990s Appalachia gained relative to the United States as a whole measured by per capita income and poverty (Pollard 2003, p. 18). Since the 2000 Census, however, the United States has experienced more difficult economic times, characterized by slow or negative job growth and a mushrooming trade deficit. One of the core reasons for the higher trade deficit has been rising imports from China, which compete with an increasingly broad cross-section of U.S. manufacturing (Shaiken 2004). In Appalachia, and especially in rural and southern Appalachia with their high dependence on manufacturing, these new conditions pose daunting challenges for both laid-off workers and economic development officials. This report looks at worker displacement in the Appalachian region during the past decade. It uses the Displaced Worker Survey (DWS) conducted every two years by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). It relies on the past five DWS surveys, conducted in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004. Each DWS asks workers about displacement experience in the previous three years. Therefore, the research in this report covers the experience of workers displaced during the periods 1993-1995, 1995-1997, 1997-1999, 1999-2001, and 2001-2003.

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Authors: Wial, Howard; Herzenberg, Stephen; Price, Mark

Publisher: Keystone Research Center

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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