"With offshoring accelerating the pace at which workers’ investments in job-specific skills lose value, the time has come for the federal government to supplement existing efforts with a new insurance program that encourages rapid reemployment and insures wages, not just unemployment, for permanently displaced workers."
A Fairer Deal For America’s Workers In a New Era of Offshoring
Brookings Trade Forum 2005, May 2005
Lael Brainard, Director, Poverty and Global Economy Initiative, The Brookings Institution
Robert E. Litan, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution and the Kauffman Foundation
Nicholas Warren, Senior Research Analyst, Poverty and Global Economy Initiative, The Brookings Institution