Is Job Stability in the US Falling?  Reconciling Trends in the Current  Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Jaeger, David A.; Stevens, Ann Huff

doi:10.3386/w6650

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“…Interestingly, although there is a perception that worker mobility is on the rise, empirical evidence examining trends in worker mobility, specifically the perceived decline in job tenure, is mixed (Auer & Cazes, 2000;Marcotte, 1999). For example, there has not been an observable increase in the number of employees with tenure of less than one year (Jaeger & Stevens, 1998). Still, there is some evidence that there was a slight decline, in the aggregate, in job stability in the early 1990s (Neumark, Polsky, & Hansen, 1997).…”

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Knowledge Nomads

Pittinsky

Shih

2004

American Behavioral Scientist

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The authors propose a new Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) perspective on the relationship between organizational commitment and worker mobility. Theories have long presumed that worker mobility and worker commitment are inversely related. Increased mobility, in dominant models of organizational commitment, comes at the expense of commitment to organization and, therefore, at the expense of the positive outcomes of commitment. We examine the potential for fostering organizational commitment amid worker mobility. We use the metaphor "Knowledge Nomads" to highlight that mobile workers are capable of building homes in organizations in the form of meaningful commitments to organization. This replaces a vision of mobile workers as itinerant wanderers, moving frequently with no commitment to organization. To reconceptualize worker commitment, worker mobility, and their relationship in positive perspective, the authors present findings from a theoretical review and from new empirical data. Implications of our findings for theory and practice, and directions for future research, are discussed.

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Knowledge Nomads

Pittinsky

Shih

2004

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Since the 1990s, all men and never-married women have seen declines in long-term employment tenure and increases in short-term job instability (Farber, 2010;Hollister, 2011;Hollister & Smith, 2014). Increases in between-job instability have been particularly large for less-educated, non-White, and private-sector workers (Jaeger & Stevens, 1999). In addition, public assistance benefits, which help to smooth income volatility, have become less stable over time (Hardy, 2017), in part because they are more closely tied to employment.…”

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Income Level and Volatility by Children's Race and Hispanic Ethnicity

Gennetian

Rodrigues

Hill

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J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: This study documents how income dynamics during childhood differ across racial/ethnic groups and among Hispanics by nativity, citizenship, and the English‐language proficiency of households. Background: Income volatility has emerged as a distinct form of economic disadvantage that can impact family life and child well‐being. Yet little is understood about how income volatility is stratified by race and ethnicity. Method: Using longitudinal data on children from the 2004 (n = 7,651) and 2008 (n = 12,183) panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study examined income level and volatility among Hispanic, non‐Hispanic White, and non‐Hispanic Black children. Results: When compared with peers, Hispanic children were more likely to be low income, but experience slightly less income volatility. Income volatility among low‐income Hispanic children was similar regardless of the nativity or citizenship status of adults in the household, although it differed by household linguistic isolation. Receipt of social assistance offered less income stabilization for low‐income Hispanic children than for peers; however, household earnings, particularly from residential male adults (most of whom were fathers), had a stabilizing influence on income. Conclusion: Income volatility is higher among low‐income families than among higher income families, irrespective of racial/ethnic status. At the lowest income levels, Hispanic children were statistically more likely than children of other racial/ethnic groups to experience slightly more stable income. Implications: Understanding how different experiences of income volatility by children's race/ethnicity might influence family life and children's development can inform policy and program practice.

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Assessing the Decline of Internal Labor Markets

Cappelli

2001

Sourcebook of Labor Markets

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Is Job Stability in the US Falling? Reconciling Trends in the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Cited by 31 publications

References 17 publications

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Income Level and Volatility by Children's Race and Hispanic Ethnicity

Assessing the Decline of Internal Labor Markets

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