Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual occupational transitions using the algorithm proposed by Moscarini and Thomsson (2008)...

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Year of publication:	2008-02-01
Authors:	Moscarini, Giuseppe ; Vella, Francis
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Berufliche Mobilität \| job mobility \| Konjunktur

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Extent:	367616 bytes 33 p. application/pdf
Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3369 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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