@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1110, author={Kambourov, Gueorgui and Manovskii, Iourii}, title={Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993}, year={2004}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={1110}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1110}, abstract={We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility for various age-education subgroups of the population. To control for measurement error in occupation and industry coding, we develop a method that utilizes the newly released, by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Retrospective Occupation-Industry Supplemental Data Files. We emphasize the importance of the findings for understanding a number of issues in macro and labor economics, including changes in wage inequality, productivity, life-cycle earnings profiles, job stability and job security.}, keywords={occupational mobility;industry mobility;career mobility;sectoral reallocation}, }