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Title: Toward a Better Measure of Work Experience
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Reimers, Cordelia Garvey, Nancy |
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Toward a Better Measure of Work Experience Working Paper No. 119, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1979 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Racial Differences; Research Methodology; Work History Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper supports the use of the NLS as being one of the few data sets which provide measures of experience adequate for estimating an earning function as well as all the other data needed. Using the Young Women's cohort, the authors specify equations to predict work experience. The results indicate that demographic information can be used to improve the prediction of experience over that resulting from the common practice of using "potential experience". Not only do race and health make significant differences to amount of experience, but it is also found that marriage and childbearing have significant effects on accumulated work experience of women even at relatively young ages. In light of the significant improvement of the linear estimating equation over the traditional method of estimating experience, the authors feel a Tobit estimation would improve the fit still further. Given data sets with sufficient detail on work histories, this general method could also be applied to provide better predicting equations for actual experience for men and older women. |
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Reimers, Cordelia and Nancy Garvey. "Toward a Better Measure of Work Experience." Working Paper No. 119, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1979. |