Tag: job tenure

Mature woman working in a factory / warehouse

Abstract Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we analyze trends in voluntary, pressured, and forced quits and risk factors associated with each type of quit.  We show that leaving one’s age-50 job between ages 50 and 56 in any of the above circumstances more than doubles the likelihood that an individual w…

financial saving concept – plant growing out of coins

Introduction Commentators constantly cite an increase in labor mobility as a major reason for the shift in the private sector from defined benefit to defined contribution plans. But while most casual observers accept such a phenomenon, economists have been hard pressed to find any significant change over time. Only in recent years have the data…