Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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150
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 4, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economic Statistics Section
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Abstract #310681
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Title:
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Hires, Separations, and the Job Tenure Distribution in Administrative Earnings Records
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Author(s):
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Henry Richard Hyatt*+ and James Spletzer
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Keywords:
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hires ;
accessions ;
separations ;
tenure ;
seniority ;
job duration
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Abstract:
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Statistics on hires, separations, and job tenure have historically been tabulated from survey data. In recent years, these statistics are increasingly being produced from administrative records. In this paper, we discuss the calculation of hires, separations, and job tenure from quarterly administrative records, and we present these labor market statistics calculated from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program. We pay special attention to a phenomenon that survey data is ill-suited to analyze: single quarter jobs, which we define as jobs in which the hire and separation occur in the same quarter. We explore the trends of hires, separations, tenure, and single quarter jobs in the United States for the years 1998-2010. We discuss issues associated with creating these statistics from quarterly earnings records, and we identify the challenges that remain.
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