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Job mobility and wage growth: evidence from the NLSY79
Audrey Light
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University.
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light.20@osu.edu
Data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth provide an unusually complete history of employment experiences; analyses of why workers separate from their employers, frequencies of these separations, and job mobility's impact on earnings reveal that today's labor markets are far more dynamic than previously realized.
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