Our paper uses the wealth of information available in the NLS to expand on previous work in several ways. First, we investigate whether there is a meaningful distinction among types of job separations. Traditional analysis has categorized job separations as either employee-initiated (quits) or...

Beginning in the early 2000s, there was an upsurge of national concern over the state of the science and engineering job market that sparked a plethora of studies, commission reports, and a presidential initiative, all stressing the importance of maintaining American competitiveness in these...

Beginning with the important work of Murphyand Welch (1992), a great deal of recentresearch has attempted to document andexplain the dramatic changes in the wage distributionthat occurred during the 1980s (see also Katz andMurphy 1992). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages...