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The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U.S. Economy
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Though the U.S. labor market is justly notorious for high turnover and consequent high unemployment, it also provides stable, near-lifetime employment to an important fraction of the labor force.This paper investigates patterns of job duration by age, race, and sex, with the following major conclusions:1.The typical worker today is holding a job which has lasted or will last about eight years.Over a quarter of all workers are holding jobs which will last twenty years or more.Sixty percent hold jobs which will last 'five years or more.
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- Authors
- Hall, R.
- Venue
- National Bureau of Economic Research
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- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Published
- 1980-10
- Volume
- 72
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- 4
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- 716-724
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