RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships
JF Journal of Human Resources
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 35
OP 69
DO 10.3368/jhr.0821-11843
VO 59
IS 1
A1 Molloy, Raven
A1 Smith, Christopher L.
A1 Wozniak, Abigail
YR 2024
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/1/35.abstract
AB We examine how the distribution of employment tenure has changed over time. The fraction of workers with short tenure (less than one year) has fallen since the mid-1990s, a trend associated with fewer workers cycling among briefly held jobs and an increase in perceived job security among short-tenure workers. Meanwhile, the fraction of men with long tenure (20 years or more) has declined markedly, partly due to the secular shift away from the manufacturing sector and the decline in unionization, as well as an increase in mid-career separations during the 1970s and 1980s that reduced the likelihood of reaching long tenure.