A panel study of coping with involuntary job loss

We examined the role of the quality of reemployment in the process of copin g with job loss using a panel design and a four-month interval for 100 disp laced workers. The dynamic process of coping with jab loss changed between the anticipatory and outcome stages. The quality of reemployment played a k ey role, interacting with time in such a way that satisfactorily reemployed workers experienced reduced economic discrepancies and replenished coping resources. The dissatisfactorily reemployed and the unemployed continued to experience negative effects.