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Title: Changes in Hours Fluctuations Since the Mid-1980s: What Happened to Middle-Skilled Workers?

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: We find that changes in hours volatilities since the mid-1980s are non-monotonic in skill levels: the standard deviation of detrended total hours of middle-skilled workers has dropped by 40 percent, while that of low-skilled workers decreased by 20 percent and that of high-skilled workers increased by 12 percent. These non-monotonic changes are driven by jobless recoveries that have dampened hours volatility of routine occupations since the mid-1980s. As a result, jobless recoveries lower hours fluctuations of middle-skilled workers since the majority of such employees are employed in routine occupations.

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Authors: Yang, Hee-Seung; Shim, Myungkyu

Publisher: UC San Diego

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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