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The Changing Importance of Lifetime Jobs, 1892–1978
Author(s) -
CARTER SUSAN B.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1988.tb01008.x
Subject(s) - workforce , demographic economics , character (mathematics) , labour economics , economics , demography , sociology , economic growth , mathematics , geometry
Individual‐level data on the job tenure of 2,981 workers surveyed by the California Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1892 are used to estimate the extent of lifetime jobs in that era. Among nonunion, native‐born men the proportion in jobs with eventual tenure of 20 or more years was about half, and among foreign‐born men a fourth, the rate among men in the modern workforce, consistent with the hypothesis of a fundamental change in employment relations over time. Changes for women were even more pronounced but of a different character.