Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
. Half of this decline is associated with the declining incidence of jobs that start and end in the same calendar quarter …, employment events that we call "single quarter jobs." We investigate this unique subset of jobs and its decline using matched … quarter jobs, and demonstrate that changes over time in workforce and employer composition explain little of the decline in …