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Job mobility in Europe, Japan and the US
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2010
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non …-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314286
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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED
Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign-born. We find that foreignborn men who hold a GED but received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411097
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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our model makes it possible to distinguish between unobserved person heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267591
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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in … 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their … industry of employment. A bad experience with, for instance, pay, work pressure, or job duties makes a change in industry more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343286
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410225
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412742
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969747
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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
; job mobility ; returns to seniority ; returns to experience ; individual effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274184
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Occupational and industrial mobility in the United States, 1969-93
Parrado, Eric (contributor); Caner, Asena (contributor);  … - 2005
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate occupational and industrial mobility of individuals over the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003229771
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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market : Evidence from U.S. Cities
Bleakley, C. Hoyt - 2019
Using U.S. Census microdata, the authors show that, on average, workers change occupation and industry less in more densely populated areas. The result is robust to standard demographic controls, as well as to including aggregate measures of human capital and sectoral mix. Analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706122