Re: Re: warning signs

[Doug Henwood]

Michael Perelman wrote:

>Also, the more secure job part still seems suspect.  Do you have much to go
>on beside the Stephanie Schmit (sp?) paper?  Do you have a URL for the
>paper?

It wasn't on the Milken Institute website. But her point was that 
perceptions of the general risk of job loss were out of line with 
individual workers' sense of their own risk of job loss.

But, I'm concluding this from the rise in the share of workers 
with >10 years of job tenure, and the decline in mass layoffs and 
initial claims for unemployment insurance.

>   High tech producers in Cal. are rife with examples of workers being
>fired and then rehired as temp workers, albeit with a degree of job security.

The BLS figures on contingency don't bear out the generality of this story.

Doug