Plant Closings and Worker Dislocation
分析工厂关闭法的合理性，发现失业工人并未比长期失业者更困难，且该法可能无意中激励工厂减少高资历员工。
This article examines the justifications for plant-closing laws, analyzing whether the objectives for plant-closing laws can be achieved. Authors Daniel A. Littman and Myung-Hoon Lee find that dislocated workers as a group do not suffer hardships any more severe than do the long-term unemployed. The article concludes that plant closings are a relatively small source of national unemployment and that plant-closing laws would not necessarily inhibit closings. The article further finds that such laws unintentionally create incentives to reduce the size of the work force in affected plants, especially among high-seniority workers.