Special Government Assistance to Defense‐dependent Industry Workers: The Case of the Aerospace Industry

Schoeni, Robert F.; Dardia, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1465-7287.1998.tb00517.x

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“…The need for national government assistance for workers or their regions is not universally supported. For example, Schoeni and Dardia (1998) argued that many of the'defense worker-specific adjustment policies were not justified because defense workers did not face additional hardships relative to other displaced workers. This argument cannot be summarily dismissed because it is true that the decade of the 1980s was relatively kind to many major DOE sites and their regions.…”

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National Government Policy Options for Contributing to Regional Economic Stability: The US Department of Energy's Major Nuclear Weapons Sites

Greenberg

Lowrie²,

Frisch

et al. 2003

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We have conducted economic simulation, historical, and survey research that considers the national government's obligation to the regions that surround the places where it developed and tested nuclear weapons. The research shows that the strongest case for an obligation is at four site regions: Hanford (Washington), Idaho, Oak Ridge (Tennessee), and Savannah River (Georgia, South Carolina). These four are dependent on the Department of Energy (DOE), have relatively low incomes, are expected to grow less economically than their counterparts and the nation as a whole, and suffer from environmental stigma. We reviewed and simulated the impacts of a variety of tools, including severance packages, onsite projects, and offsite economic investments. In essence, investments in severance packages, education, and recreation are more effective per dollar invested than high technology, but all investments are less effective in these dependent regions than in larger metropolitan areas because of the economic leakage out of these dependent regions. The national government needs to begin a process of working with these regions to help them deal with the shock of shrinking their dependency on the DOE.

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Section: Federal Obligationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Government Policy Options for Contributing to Regional Economic Stability: The US Department of Energy's Major Nuclear Weapons Sites

Greenberg

Lowrie²,

Frisch

et al. 2003

Review of Policy Research

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Downsizing and Worker Separations: Modelling the Regional Economic Impacts of Alternative Department of Energy Workforce Adjustment Policies

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Lewis D., Frisch M. and Greenberg M. (2004) Downsizing and worker separations: modelling the regional economic impacts of alternative Department of Energy workforce adjustment policies, Reg. Studies 38, 67-83. Fifty years of huge investments by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in some regions has resulted in the DOE being the de facto steward of their regional economic health. With the end of the cold war, job reductions of DOE contractor workforce have severely impacted these regions. DOE worker separation policies may cushion or intensify these impacts. Using an economic simulation model, we examined the impacts of three different worker separation policies: the 'painful response' (no severance packages), the 'current response' (the current average of DOE separation packages), and the 'supportive response' (more lucrative severance and continued medical coverage). The analysis is split on two regional axes: (1) more rural DOE regions, as in the area surrounding the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Augusta, GA; versus (2) more metropolitan locations, such as the area surrounding the Rocky Flats Site which is in the Denver MSA. The results indicate that recent legislation which enhances worker separation packages for nuclear defence workers will substantially help the workers and their DOE-dependent communities cope with the negative impacts of DOE restructuring. Our research also corroborates earlier work which asserts that the state can play an effective, positive role in helping workers and communities adjust to economic restructuring.DOE, Workforce policies, Rural development, Economic adjustment, Ministere de l'Energie, Politique en faveur de l'emploi, Developpement rural, Ajustement economique, Ministeriurn fur Energie, Bestrebungen betreff Arbeiterschaft, Landliche Entwicklung, Wirtschaftliche Anpassung, Departamento de Energia, Politicas de personal, Desarrollo rural, Ajuste economico,

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Special Government Assistance to Defense‐dependent Industry Workers: The Case of the Aerospace Industry

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National Government Policy Options for Contributing to Regional Economic Stability: The US Department of Energy's Major Nuclear Weapons Sites

National Government Policy Options for Contributing to Regional Economic Stability: The US Department of Energy's Major Nuclear Weapons Sites

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Downsizing and Worker Separations: Modelling the Regional Economic Impacts of Alternative Department of Energy Workforce Adjustment Policies

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