Search Results

Title: An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations
Resulting in 1 citation.
1. Akerlof, George A.
Main, Brian G.
An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations
American Economic Review 71,5 (December 1981): 1003-1011.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1803481
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Job Turnover; Unemployment Duration

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This study displays empirical estimates of a measure of the average length of a spell in which an employment-year and unemployment-week is utilized. The results show that unemployment durations are all longer by large multiples. Most employment experience is spent in jobs that are quite long. Even though there may be less permanence than previous times, the average male is employed in a job of long standing; therefore, there exists a considerable degree of permanence in the labor market.
Bibliography Citation
Akerlof, George A. and Brian G. Main. "An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations." American Economic Review 71,5 (December 1981): 1003-1011.