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The objective of this research is to evaluate the effects of the various adjustment benefits given under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on the employment, income, and duration of frictional unemployment of displaced-worker recipients compared to an appropriate control group. A sample survey was conducted on displaced shoe workers from Woonsocket, R.I. and from Brunswick, Maine, and the data on various socio-economic variables plus trade adjustment assistance experience was analyzed by OLS regression techniques. The results indicate that workers who received adjustment assistance benefits promptly upon lay-off take longer to find a job than do workers who received their trade-allowance late, but that the job they find is a higher paying one. This apparently is a result of a more thorough job-search by the workers made possible by the security of their income maintenance under the program.