TY  - JOUR
AU  - Diebold,Francis X.
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Polsky,Daniel
TI  - Job Stability in the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4859
PY  - 1994
Y2  - September 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4859
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4859.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Francis X. Diebold
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA  19104-6297
Tel: 215/898-1507
Fax: 212/573-4217
E-Mail: fdiebold@sas.upenn.edu

David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu

Daniel Polsky
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
423 Guardian Drive, Blockley Hall, Rm 1212
Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-Mail: polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1995-02-01
AB  - Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration.  Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor markets, using data assembled from the sequence of Current Population Survey job tenure supplements.  In contrast to the distribution of wages, which clearly changed in the 1980s, we find that job retention rates have remained stable.
ER  -