Interpreting Panel Data on Job Tenure

Brown, James N.; Light, Audrey

doi:10.1086/298286

“…Job tenure data are often considered crude and relatively less reliable. Among the many problems associated with job tenure data in the literature are: inconsistency of reporting across calendar years, recall and rounding errors, spikes in the tenure distributions at years which are multiples of …ve (see Brown and Light, 1992). The relative separation rates that we estimate do seem to be very similar with those in Jolivet, Postel-Vinay, and Robin (2006) as well as those in OECD (1997).…”

Section: Panel Survey (Echp) For the European Countries And Panel Stusupporting

confidence: 47%

Job-finding and separation rates in the OECD

Hobijn

¹

,

Şahin

²

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn this paper, we provide a set of comparable estimates of aggregate monthly job-finding and separation rates for twenty-seven OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries; these estimates can be used for the cross-country calibration of search models of unemployment. We find that cross-country differences in job-finding rates are much greater than those in separation rates. Our results are quantitatively and qualitatively in line with those published in previous studies; however, they cover a much larger set of countries. We combine our estimates with evidence on unemployment and labor force participation rates to impute steady-state worker flows for twenty-three of the countries in our sample.

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“…Recent papers by Altonji and Williams (1992), Brown (1989), Brown and Light (1992), Farber (1995), Hutchens (1989), Ruhm (1990), and Topel (1991) demonstrate that there are no final answers on this issue. Here we have been able to include information on mobile and immobile workers with the finding that there is not much evidence for firm-specific tenure effects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

German Job Mobility and Wages

Zimmermann¹

1998

Internal Labour Markets, Incentives and Employment

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in German Job Mobility and WagesKlaus F. Zimmermann The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by the Deutsche Post AG. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor markets, (2) internationalization of labor markets and European integration, (3) the welfare state and labor markets, (4) labor markets in transition, (5) the future of work, and (6) general labor economics. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character.IZA Discussion Paper No.4 April 1998 ABSTRACTGerman Job Mobility and Wages* The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework and the industry approach. Using German panel data, changes of workplaces within the firm as well as between the firms are carefully separated from occupational changes. Results suggest: Germans are much more flexible than is generally conjectured. The internal labor market is more important than the external labor market. The job approach is the most relevant framework. Firm tenure is no relevant determinant of earnings. Past mobility and sectoral and regional factors determine individual mobility.JEL Classification: J31, J62

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“…23 As documented in Brown and Light (1992), there are numerous inconsistencies in the PSID in reported tenure values. For example, an individual may report 3, 4.5, and 2 years of tenure in three consecutive years.…”

Section: B Earnings Regressionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, in assigning individual observations to jobs, we assumed that a job is being seen the first time whenever reported tenure is less than the elapsed time since the previous interview. This corresponds to "partition T" in Brown and Light (1992) and Parent (2000). In the above example, this rule tells us that the individual changed his/her job after the second year, i.e, we re-assigned the tenure values to 3, 4 and 1.…”

Section: B Earnings Regressionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational and industrial mobility in the United States

Parrado¹,

Caner

²

,

Wolff

³

2007

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Levy Economics Institute Working Paper Collection presents research in progress by Levy Institute scholars and conference participants. The purpose of the series is to disseminate ideas to and elicit comments from academics and professionals. Terms of use: Documents inThe Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, independently funded research organization devoted to public service. Through scholarship and economic research it generates viable, effective public policy responses to important economic problems that profoundly affect the quality of life in the United States and abroad. 1969-1980 and 1981-1993 periods in the U.S. We find that workers changed both occupations and industries more frequently in the later period. For example, occupational mobility for men ranged from 15 to 20 percent per year during the first period and from 20 to 25 percent per year over the second. We also find that, for men, occupational and industrial changes are associated with lower earnings, though this effect has lessened somewhat over time, while for women the results are mixed. Our results also indicate that older and less educated workers are less likely to shift occupation or industry, as are better paid men but not better paid women.JEL classification: J24, J31, J62.

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Interpreting Panel Data on Job Tenure

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Job-finding and separation rates in the OECD

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