Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62729 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2001,102
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper studies signs and reasons of decline of job stability in West Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-1997, we look at two measures for job stability. Based on repeated cross sectional data we first show that medium elapsed tenure declined for men. Secondly, we find that the measure of completed job duration can efficiently be used, to distinguish reasons for job termination and to surpass the problem of right censoring. Estimating hazard models with competing risks, we show that the decline in job stability of men can be attributed primarily to an increase in layoffs.
Subjects: 
labor mobility
duration analysis
Job stability
layoffs
JEL: 
J63
C41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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