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Industry Wage Differentials and Wait Unemployment
Author(s) -
KLETZER LORI
Publication year - 1992
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.1992.tb00308.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , spell , economics , wage , differential (mechanical device) , labour economics , duration (music) , test (biology) , demographic economics , involuntary unemployment , sociology , economic growth , engineering , art , paleontology , literature , aerospace engineering , anthropology , biology
This analysis uses individual‐level data to test the industry wage differential‐wait unemployment hypothesis. Using the 1988 Bureau of Labor Statistics Displaced Worker Survey, it examines the role of predisplacement industry in determining the length of jobless spells and finds some evidence consistent with wait unemployment. The analysis also considers the incidence of joblessness separately from duration and finds that factors positively related to the occurrence of a spell are not necessarily positively related to its ultimate length.