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Title: Unemployment over the Work History: Structure, Determinants, and Consequences
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Leighton, Linda S. |
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Unemployment over the Work History: Structure, Determinants, and Consequences Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1978 Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Job Turnover; Unemployment; Unemployment Compensation; Unemployment Duration This dissertation investigates differential patterns of unemployment over the work history. Particular attention is paid to the role of traditional human capital variables in reducing employment instability. Comparisons are made for four race age groups among male labor force participants. This research extends previous studies of differential unemployment in four important ways: (1) the unemployment rate is segmented into its underlying components: incidence, average duration per spell, and number of spells; (2) unemployment is studied over progressively wider time spans, thus reducing the selectivity bias inherent in short period analyses; (3) the relationship between turnover and unemployment is examined; (4) detailed information on the reason for unemployment is utilized. The unemployment rate for job holders is separated first into a quit and a layoff related unemployment rate, and then each is segmented further into a turnover rate, a conditional probability of unemployment, and an associated duration of unemployment. Estimates of these basic measures are calculated for each demographic group and examined by skill levels for at least two periods. Three general observations emerged for all groups: (1) a high proportion of quitters became unemployed; (2) layoff did not necessarily imply unemployment; (3) job change did not mean unemployment nor was unemployment synonymous with job change. For white youths, the immediate effect of an incidence of unemployment was to reduce wage growth. In contrast, unemployment had no adverse consequences on the wage gains of black youth, suggesting little on the job investment. For workers approaching retirement, unemployment also had minimal impact on relative wage growth. |
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Leighton, Linda S. Unemployment over the Work History: Structure, Determinants, and Consequences. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1978. |