Have Employment Relationships in the United States Become Less Stable?

Cynthia Bansak and Steven Raphael ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2006, vol. 12, issue 3, 342-357

Abstract: There has been considerable debate as to whether job stability has declined in the United States. This paper uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine the incidence of labor market turnover between 1986 and 1993. Specifically, we calculate one- and two-year separation rates and then analyze turnover by the source of separation. We find that the incidence of job separations did not increase over the period under investigation, but appears to have declined somewhat. When analyzing separations by reason, conditional on separating from an employer, we find little evidence of temporal changes in the composition of turnover that would indicate greater employment instability. Therefore, we do not find conclusive evidence that employment relationships have become more unstable in the recent past. Copyright IAES 2006

Keywords: employment stability; labor turnover; J60; J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s11294-006-9022-6

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