Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research
No 11/2010: Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Lex Borghans () and Bart H.H. Golsteyn ()
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Lex Borghans: Dept. of Economics and the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Postal: Maastricht University
Bart H.H. Golsteyn: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Postal: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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.
Keywords: Job Mobility; Graduates; Europe; Japan; U.S.
41 pages, December 17, 2010
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