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A Retrospective Analysis of Employment Duration: Evidence from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Author(s) -
Ignaczak Luke,
Voia Marcel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00512.x
Subject(s) - duration (music) , demographic economics , demography , distribution (mathematics) , perception , work (physics) , economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics , mechanical engineering , art , mathematical analysis , literature , neuroscience , engineering
Popular perception holds that average employment durations have declined in recent decades. However, most studies conclude that the proportion of long‐term employment relationships has remained remarkably stable over time. To shed light on this discrepancy we use distribution analysis to systematically track changes in Canadian employment durations over the second half of the 20th century. The analysis reveals that earlier cohorts were more likely to have longer employment durations than later cohorts and that there are shifts in proportions between longer and shorter work episodes with employment durations declining sharply for men and mixed results for women.