Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market

This paper presents new estimates of gross worker flows for Canada for the sample period 1978 to 2016. We use administrative data from the Canadian Record of Employment in combination with the Canadian Labor Force Survey to estimate employer-to-employer flows in addition to flows between labor market states. We highlight three main results: Roughly two-thirds of all job separations are employer-to-employer flows. Employer-to-Employer flows are highly procyclical. The combination of these two results means that total job separations are procyclical. If employer-to-employer flows improve match quality, our results imply that recessions have a sullying effect on the labor market.

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New Evidence on the Labor Market Segmentation Hypothesis

Review of Social Economy ◽

10.1080/758524599 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 20-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong ◽

Paulette Olson

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Labor Market Segmentation ◽

New Evidence

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Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? New Evidence on Earnings in Manufacturing

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s002205070001696x ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 626-656 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

World War I ◽

Market Integration ◽

The United States ◽

Wage Rates ◽

South Central ◽

Central Regions ◽

Annual Earnings ◽

New Evidence ◽

National Labor Market

Average annual earnings calculated from the census of manufactures are used to extend previous research on labor market integration in the United States. In contrast to earlier research examining occupational wage rates, census average earnings indicate that a well-integrated labor market had emerged in the Northeast and North Central regions as early as 1879. They also reveal substantial convergence within the South Atlantic and South Central regions, suggesting the emergence of a unified southern labor market. Large and persistent North-South differentials indicate, however, that a unified national labor market did not develop before World War I.

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