October 15, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Displaced professional workers most likely to return to same occupation
Of the workers who
were displaced in 1995-96 and reemployed in February 1998, those displaced
from professional jobs were most likely to return to the same broad
occupational group.
![Percent of workers displaced from white- or blue-collar jobs, reemployed in same occupation or in service occupations, February 1998](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120924195952im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/Oct/wk2/art04.gif)
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Seventy-one percent of workers displaced from professional specialty
jobs were reemployed in the same broad occupation in early 1998. Technicians and
workers in related support occupations, and operators, fabricators, and
laborers had the smallest proportion returning to the same broad category
of job—45 percent.
Of the 1.7 million workers displaced from white- and blue-collar jobs
reemployed in February 1998, 6 percent moved into the service occupations,
jobs that usually pay the lowest and offer the fewest employee benefits.
Workers displaced from operator, fabricator, and laborer occupations had
the highest proportion (11 percent) who had taken service jobs while
professional specialty jobs had the lowest—2 percent.
Displaced workers lose their jobs because their plants or companies
close down or move, their positions or shifts are abolished, or their
employers do not have enough work for them to do. Statistics here are for
"long-tenured workers"—those who had been in their jobs for 3
years or longer.
These data are from a February 1998 supplement to the Current
Population Survey. Note that the
percentages in the chart are for displaced workers employed at the time of
the survey. Find more information on displacement in "Worker
displacement in the mid-1990s,"
by Steven Hipple, Monthly Labor Review, July 1999.
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