Does Occupational Training by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Really Help Reemployment?: Success Measured as Matching

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooyoun Park
Keyword(s):  
Trade Adjustment Assistance ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Trade Adjustment

Reforms of Korea's Trade Adjustment Assistance Program for Its Bilateral Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inkyo Cheong ◽  
Jungran Cho
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Free Trade Agreements ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Adjustment Assistance ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Trade Adjustment

The Korean government introduced the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program to facilitate structural adjustment under the implementation of its free trade agreements (FTAs). One big problem with the TAA program is that its criterion for eligibility for TAA support requires a 25 percent decrease in sales volume, and this does not reflect firms' business realities. The TAA program should be reformed to reflect that the TAA is a quid pro quo for the implementation of FTAs with large economies such as the United States and the EU.

Skill Overshooting in Job Training With the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124242098484
Author(s):  
Justin Barnette ◽  
Jooyoun Park
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
Trade Adjustment Assistance ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Trade Adjustment ◽  
The Cost

The authors investigate the training choices made by workers entering the Trade Adjustment Assistance program and their postexit outcomes. This is important as more workers enter these types of programs due to technological change and globalization. Their study shows that workers that choose a training occupation beyond their skill level (skill overshooting) achieve higher earnings ($615 annually) and wage replacement rates (2.0 percentage points) at the cost of lower reemployment rates (−1.9 percentage points) immediately following program exit. An investigation of subsamples shows that skill overshooting is especially beneficial to females and those living in rural areas with earnings gains of $1,443 and $1,080, respectively, without hurting their chances of reemployment.

International Trade and Worker Displacement: Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Decker ◽  
Walter Corson
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Trade Adjustment Assistance ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Unemployment Compensation ◽  
Employment Adjustment ◽  
Earnings Losses ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Trade Adjustment ◽  
Nationally Representative

The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program offers unemployment compensation and re-employment adjustment services to workers who lose their jobs due to increased import competition. In 1981 and again in 1988, the program rules were changed to shift the emphasis from compensation to training. This paper examines the pre-layoff characteristics and post-layoff labor market experience of two nationally representative samples of TAA program participants, one of which participated in the program just before the 1988 amendments and the other just after. The authors find that the TAA program was well targeted during the time period studied: it served workers who were permanently displaced from their jobs and who experienced significant earnings losses due to their layoff. They find no evidence, however, tha training had a substantial positive impact on earnings of TAA trainees, at least in the first three years after their initial unemployment insurance claim.

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