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Author: Cho, Woo Hyun
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1. Cho, Woo Hyun
Promotion Prospects, Job Search and the Quit Behavior of Employed Youth
Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1983. DAI-A 44/01, p. 242, July 1983
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Attainment; Employment; Job Training; Mobility, Job; Quality of Employment Survey (QES); Unions

This dissertation investigates the determinants of on-the-job search behavior of employed young workers. The central hypothesis is that young workers who consider their jobs to have good promotion prospects are less likely to seek out alternative jobs than are other workers. Conversely, those workers who don't have good promotion prospects are more likely to seek out jobs elsewhere and quit when they find reasonable alternative positions. The analysis of interfirm mobility requires consideration of learning and promotion prospects within the firm. I assume that newly hired workers of a given class are indistinguishable to the firm and that they normally accumulate learning on the job. With the accumulation of job skills at the current job, they may vacate their current jobs, demand higher position at the next rank and move forward to another work activity with an enhanced stock of human capital, either within the firm or outside it. Quite naturally the junior worker's interest hinges upon the promotion probability to the next job. I frame the promotion process within the firm in terms of a cumulative advantage hypothesis, in which the initial success is assumed to be determined by a random process, but in which workers who experience success are more likely to be successful in the future. Within any time period the probability of promotion is dependent on the accumulated amount of learning and the type of job. I then estimate models of on-the-job search and quits, incorporating as an explanatory variable the young workers' promotion assessment variable. Two operational measures of promotion are used, an ex ante promotion assessment and an ex post measure of actual promotion. Tests of the model are performed, using two data sets, the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Force Behavior, Youth Survey, 1979, 1980 and 1981 and the 1973-1977 Quality of Employment Survey: PANEL. The evidence from both surveys indicates that actual quits as well as contemporaneous job search activity result from low promotion prospects. The second hypothesis I explore is that the level of learning opportunities in the current job itself strongly determines promotion prospects. The estimates confirm the hypothesis promotion prospects depend on the amount of on-the-job learning accumulation.
Bibliography Citation
Cho, Woo Hyun. Promotion Prospects, Job Search and the Quit Behavior of Employed Youth. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1983. DAI-A 44/01, p. 242, July 1983.
2. Cho, Woo Hyun
Promotion Prospects, Job Search and the Quit Behavior of Employed Youth
Report, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, September 1983
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research
Keyword(s): Job Promotion; Job Search; Mobility, Interfirm

This paper investigates the determinants of the on-the-job search and quitting behavior of employed young workers.
Bibliography Citation
Cho, Woo Hyun. "Promotion Prospects, Job Search and the Quit Behavior of Employed Youth." Report, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, September 1983.