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Title: Evaluating Competing Theories of Interfirm Worker Mobility
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1. Farber, Henry S.
Evaluating Competing Theories of Interfirm Worker Mobility
NLS Discussion Paper No. 92-5, Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1992.
Also: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/nl/nl920020.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Heterogeneity; Job Search; Job Turnover; Mobility; Mobility, Job; Work Histories

The plan of this in-progress research which will utilize data from the NLSY is to develop and carry out an extensive set of tests of competing theories of mobility including theories of (1) the accumulation of firm-specific human capital, (2) individual heterogeneity in the propensity to change jobs, (3) job/match heterogeneity, and (4) the maturation of relatively mobile young workers into more stable workers. The tests will be based primarily on (1) the discrete pattern of prior mobility, (2) mobility during the first year on the job, (3) mobility subsequent to involuntary job changes, and (4) the relationship between the method of job finding (general search vs. referral) and mobility, both prior and subsequent.
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Farber, Henry S. "Evaluating Competing Theories of Interfirm Worker Mobility." NLS Discussion Paper No. 92-5, Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1992.