Examining Managerial Displacement

Abstract

The research reported used a longitudinal analysis to compare the displacement experience of managers with that of other employees and to examine the factors associated with managerial job loss. Job displacement occurs when employees are permanently separated from their employer when their job disappears. After controlling for individual and industry characteristics, I found that during the mid-1980s managers were actually more vulnerable to displacement than were other employees, suffering proportionately greater job loss from efforts to streamline and downsize organizations and from plant closings.