Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36106 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4721
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use lifetime job histories from the pension records to evaluate changes in job stability in Finland between 1963 and 2004. We specify a duration model and estimate the effects of elapsed duration, age, and calendar time on the hazard of job ending using individual-level panel data spanning over four decades. We find that this hazard increased during the recession years in the early 1990s but has now returned to the level that prevailed in the 1970s. We also demonstrate that the fluctuations in the hazard rate together with the changes in labor market entry rates have complicated dynamic effects on the tenure distribution, and that analysing the changes in job stability based on the elapsed duration of ongoing jobs may be quite misleading.
Subjects: 
Job stability
duration model
JEL: 
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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