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Has job stability decreased in Norway?

Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Bratberg, Espen; Vaage, Kjell
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2006-08
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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 Economics
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Discussion paper
2006:27

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