For US coal workers, earnings losses from the decline of their industry have been large and lasting

Colmer, Jonathan; Krause, Eleanor

For US coal workers, earnings losses from the decline of their industry have been large and lasting

In the 2010s, coal mining employment in the US declined by over 50 percent. In new research, Jonathan Colmer and Eleanor Krause look at how costly this change has been for coal workers. The researchers find that these workers not only suffered significant earnings losses - equivalent to a 20 percent reduction each year - and high rates of non-employment, but they also had little success transitioning into new jobs in different industries or regions.

28 April 2025

LSE USA PP

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025/04/28/for-us-coal-workers-earnings-losses-from-the-decline-of-their-industry-have-been-large-and-lasting/

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