Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation

We revisit measurement of employer-to-employer (EE) transitions in the monthly Current Population Survey. The incidence of missing answers to the question on change of employer sharply increases starting with the introduction of a new software instrument to conduct interviews in January 2007 and of...

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Published in:American economic journal. Macroeconomics 2024-07, Vol.16 (3), p.1-51
Main Authors: Fujita, Shigeru, Moscarini, Giuseppe, Postel-Vinay, Fabien
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Language:English
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Summary:We revisit measurement of employer-to-employer (EE) transitions in the monthly Current Population Survey. The incidence of missing answers to the question on change of employer sharply increases starting with the introduction of a new software instrument to conduct interviews in January 2007 and of the Respondent Identification Policy in 2008–2009. We document nonrandom nonresponse selection by observable and unobservable worker characteristics that correlate with EE mobility. We propose a selection model and a procedure to impute missing answers. Our imputed EE aggregate series no longer trends down after 2000 and restores a close congruence with the business cycle after 2007. (JEL C83, E24, E32, J62)
ISSN:1945-7707
1945-7715
DOI:10.1257/mac.20210076