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Title: Gender Differences in the Job Turnover Behavior of Young Workers
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1. Aukstikalnis, Amy Marie
Gender Differences in the Job Turnover Behavior of Young Workers
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Economics of Gender; Gender Differences; Industrial Relations; Job Tenure; Job Turnover; Labor Turnover; Modeling; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Quits

This study uses data from the 1979 through 1991 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to analyze gender differences in the job-quitting behavior of young workers on their first career jobs. Using a semi-parametric duration model, significant gender differences in the job-quitting behavior of young workers are found. For both Blacks and Whites, the coefficient estimates of the model and the shape of quit hazard functions are different for men and women. For both men and women, however, the shape of the hazard function coincides with theoretical predictions. The quit hazard functions peak early in employment duration, and then tend to decline with job tenure thereafter. The quit hazard function, however, appears to decline more gradually for women than for men. By the end of the fourth year of employment, however, the quit hazard rates of men and women, within race groups, tend to equalize.
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Aukstikalnis, Amy Marie. Gender Differences in the Job Turnover Behavior of Young Workers. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, 1995.