INTERPRETING PANEL DATA ON JOB TENURE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BROWN, JN; LIGHT, A
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298286
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 219-257
• 关键词: consequences; seniority; mobility

摘要

Tenure responses in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Surveys are often inconsistent with calendar time. These inconsistencies pose special problems in the PSID because job changes cannot be identified directly, so researchers must infer them from error-ridden tenure data. We use alternative rules for partitioning PSID data into jobs and then estimate several wage and mobility models to assess the sensitivity of parameter estimates to the partitioning method. We also assess the importance of replacing raw tenure data with imputed measures that are internally consistent.