Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers
"We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Language: | English |
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Nottingham
2015
University of Nottingham |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19113397124919315799-off-the-waterfront-the-long-ru.htm |
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| author | El-Sahli, Zouheir Upward, Richard |
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| description | "We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and the late-1970s, had dramatic consequences for specific occupations within the port industry. Using longitudinal micro-census data we follow dock-workers over a 40 year period and examine the long-run consequences of containerisation for patterns of employment, migration and mortality. The results show that the job guarantees protected dock-workers' employment until their removal in 1989. A matched comparison of workers in comparable unskilled occupations reveals that, even after job guarantees were removed, dock-workers did not fare worse than the comparison group in terms of their labour market outcomes. Our results suggest that job guarantees may significantly reduce the cost to workers of sudden technological change, albeit at a significant cost to the industry." |
| format | TEXT |
| geographic | United Kingdom |
| id | 19113397124919315799_75298ad0ee9c4612a96bbe48a98e319e |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19113397124919315799_75298ad0ee9c4612a96bbe48a98e319e |
| is_hierarchy_title | Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers |
| language | English |
| physical | 41 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | Nottingham University of Nottingham |
| spellingShingle | El-Sahli, Zouheir Upward, Richard dismissal docker employment labour market technological change job insecurity Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers |
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| title | Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers |
| topic | dismissal docker employment labour market technological change job insecurity |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19113397124919315799-off-the-waterfront-the-long-ru.htm |