THE IMPACT OF ADVANCE NOTICE: A COMMENT ON A STUDY BY NORD AND TING.

The article comments on a research conducted by Stephen Nord and Yuan Ting on the effect of advance notice of plant closings on earnings and unemployment. In this paper, an empirical analysis is presented that focuses on the unemployment results of the authors. Moreover, the details of the methodology used in the study are presented in this paper, wherein they consider the relationship between advance notice and the duration of post-displacement joblessness. In addition, the article presents views on regression estimates obtained by the authors.