A Note on U.S. Worker Turnover
Choi, Sekyu (University of Bristol)
Fernández-Blanco, Javier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	The length of new employment relationships is of first-order importance for a number of questions in recent macro-labour research. We investigate it using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for the US from 1996 onwards, and document that above two-fifths of newly employed workers fall into non-employment within a year. We also find that the transition rate from employment to non-employment within the first year varies significantly for different groups of the population, increases with the duration of the previous non-employment spell, exhibits an acyclical or weakly procyclical pattern and a much higher volatility than the unemployment rate.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ECO2012-32392 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SEV-2011-0075 Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología ECO2013-46395-P
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Worker turnover ; Non-employment duration ; Cyclicality ; Volatility
Published in:	Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, Vol. 79, Num. 2 (2017) , p. 276-289, ISSN 0305-9049

DOI: 10.1111/obes.12154

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