ANALYZING JOBMOBILITY WITH JOB TURNOVER INTENTIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY

In this paper, job mobility is analyzed with microdata on job turnover intentionsfrom a single survey covering 25 countries. Making reference to the vast psychology literatureon this topic, it is argued that these intentions are good predictors for actual turnovers. Sincecross-national evidence - due to the nature of the required (mostly panel) data - on actual (jobto-job) turnover is very scarce, the use of turnover intentions is a feasible approach atovercoming these data limitations. It is shown that turnover intentions vary across countries,with high turnover intentions in Canada, Russia, the United States, and Great Britain, and lowintentions in Japan, Spain, and several Eastern European countries...