Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51578 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5386
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare the results to the U.S. We find that (1) U.S. graduates hold more jobs than European graduates. (2) Contrasting conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job mobility within Europe.
Subjects: 
job mobility
graduates
Europe
Japan
US
JEL: 
J24
J31
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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