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Title: Families and Careers
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Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: Recent research by Kambourov and Manovskii (2008a) has documented substantial returns to occupational tenure: everything else being constant, five years of occupational experience are associated with an increase in wages of at least 12%. This finding is consistent with human capital being specific to the occupation in which an individual works (e.g., truck driver, accountant, chemical engineer). However, despite the apparent costliness of occupational switching, Kambourov and Manovskii (2008b) found a substantial increase in occupational mobility over the 1969-1997 period among male workers in the United States. This finding poses a set of intriguing questions. Why did the occupational mobility of male workers increase? What happened with the occupational mobility of women? Are the two trends connected? That is, is there a relationship between the well-documented increase in the labor force attachment of women and the change in the occupational mobility of men? In this paper we present new facts that we hope will help guide the search for answers to these questions. In particular, we study changes in the occupational . . .
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Authors: Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii; Telyukova, Irina A
Publisher: University of Toronto
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Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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