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Occupational and Job Mobility in the US *
Author(s) -
Moscarini Giuseppe,
Thomsson Kaj
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the scandinavian journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.725
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1467-9442
pISSN - 0347-0520
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2007.00510.x
Subject(s) - occupational mobility , economics , demographic economics , falling (accident) , labour economics , dimension (graph theory) , labor mobility , similarity (geometry) , longitudinal data , econometrics , psychology , demography , mathematics , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , pure mathematics , image (mathematics)
We propose a new methodology to measure worker mobility across occupations and jobs in the US, building on the limited longitudinal dimension of monthly CPS data. For the period 1979–2006, we find that about 3.5% of male workers employed in two consecutive months report different three‐digit occupations. This rate is procyclical, mildly rising in the 1980s and falling after 1995. We also revise upward current estimates of aggregate job‐to‐job mobility since 1994, from 2.7% to 3.2% of employment per month. Despite extreme similarity of average levels and time‐series behavior, occupational and job mobility are only weakly correlated.