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 employees prior to a plant closing or large-scale layoff We use individual-level data from the 1990 Displaced Worker Survey to measure the extent to which the provision of advance notice changed after the Act was 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.