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

By G. Kambourov, I. Manovskii. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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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.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Inter-industry labor flows (2017, background): “Recent work in this tradition finds that workers often change jobs across industries that belong to completely different sectors (Parrado et al., 2007; Kambourov and Manovskii, 2008).”
Occupation and the Political Economy of Trade: Job Routineness, Offshorability, and Protectionist Sentiment (2017, background): “For instance, Kambourov and Manovskii 2008 find occupation tenure is a more important determinant of wages than industry tenure.”
The recent decline in employment dynamics (2013, result): “Moscarini and Thomsson (2007) document an increase in occupational mobility from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s which is consistent with the findings of Kambourov and Manovskii (2008), followed by a decline after 1994, but they do not conduct a composition analysis.”