Employment duration and match quality over the business cycle

• Main Authors: BAYDUR, Ismail, MUKOYAMA, Toshihiko
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Business cycles; employment; quits; firing; match quality; job duration; Labor Economics; Labor Relations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2034; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3033/viewcontent/mukoyama_05_29_2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper studies the cyclical behavior of employment duration using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort. We estimate a proportional hazard model with competing risks, distinguishing different types of separations. A higher unemployment rate at the start of an employment...