Trends in Sector Switching: Evidence from Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen () and Jesper Rosenberg Hansen ()
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Jesper Rosenberg Hansen: Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Postal: 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: Sector switching is new to the public administration literature and our knowledge about the prevalence and trends is limited. Yet, sector switching is an important phenomenon which casts light on public-private differences. We study sector switching in a modern economy using unique Danish register-based employer-employee data covering more than 25 years. We find that sector switching constitutes 18.5 percent of all job-to-job mobility and the trend is increasing both in general, for administrative professionals, for top managers and, in particular, for middle managers. These findings are robust to controlling for general trends in labour market mobility, unemployment and economic growth.

Keywords: Sector switching; public private differences; New Public Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 J45 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2013-05-28
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