The Causes and Consequences of Displacement in Steel and High- Technology Industries
Published Date: January 1, 1985
This paper investigates workers in an old and declining industry--steel--and in several new and growing high-technology industries. It analyzes the relationship between employment and technology in steel by focusing on plants that adopted new technology and compares their employment experience with non-innovating plants. The adjustment of workers forced out of either steel or hi-tech industries is studied by focusing on where they went and how their earnings changed.
