Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993

Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovskii

No 1110, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility for various age-education subgroups of the population. To control for measurement error in occupation and industry coding, we develop a method that utilizes the newly released, by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Retrospective Occupation-Industry Supplemental Data Files. We emphasize the importance of the findings for understanding a number of issues in macro and labor economics, including changes in wage inequality, productivity, life-cycle earnings profiles, job stability and job security.

Keywords: occupational mobility; industry mobility; career mobility; sectoral reallocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 J21 J24 J44 J45 J62 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68 pages
Date: 2004-04
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Published - revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79

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