HAS WARN WARNED - THE IMPACT OF ADVANCE-NOTICE LEGISLATION ON THE RECEIPT OF ADVANCE NOTICE

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 requires large employers to provide sixty days of written notice to affected e mployees prior to a plant closing or large-scale layoff We use individ ual-level data from the 1990 Displaced Worker Survey to measure the ex tent to which the provision of advance notice changed after the Act wa s implemented in early 1989. Surprisingly, the Act appears to have had virtually no impact on the provision of advance notice of the length mandated by the law.