Rising occupational and industry mobility in the United States: 1968-97

被引:147
作者
Kambourov, Gueorgui [2 ]
Manovskii, Iourii [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Dept Econ, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[2] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00473.x
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
We document and analyze the high level and the substantial increase in worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-97 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. This is important in light of the recent findings that human capital of workers is largely occupation- or industry-specific. To control for measurement error in occupation and industry coding, we develop a method that utilizes the PSID Retrospective Occupation-Industry Supplemental Data Files. We emphasize the importance of our findings for understanding a number of issues such as the changes in wage inequality, aggregate productivity, job stability, and life-cycle earnings profiles.
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