Has job stability decreased in Norway?
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2006-08Metadata
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Abstract
A widespread belief in the popular press is that job stability has declined across Western
economies over the last 15 years. However, little support for this is found in the empirical
literature. We use an extensive employer–employee data set for Norway to analyse changes in
job stability in Norway by first presenting descriptive measures of job stability for
manufacturing, the public sector and private services. Both descriptive analyses of tenure, hire
and separation rates as well as regression-adjusted measures controlling for changes in
demographics and the business cycle, indicate a slight decrease in job stability in Norway
driven by increased job separation rates. These changes are not equally distributed across
sectors or sub-groups of workers. However, we do not find that this tendency towards less
stable jobs led to an increase in job-to-unemployment/out of the labour force; rather it was characterized by more job-to-job changes.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of EconomicsSeries
Discussion paper2006:27