
Joakim Gullstrand
Rektor, Professor

Who Leaves after Entering the Primary Sector? Evidence from Swedish micro-level data
Författare
Summary, in English
Using 14 waves of panel data, this paper investigates why employees entering the primary sector exit subsequently. Transition probabilities are explained by a rich set of individual, regional and sectoral characteristics and a discrete-time competing risks model with unrestricted base-line hazards is used to distinguish between exits into a job in other sectors and other exits. The results confirm Jovanovic's suggestion of 'survival of the fittest matches' as workers and firms learn more about the quality of the match between them. It is found that agricultural education, higher income and sector wage differences are the main determinants of the hazard of moving to another sector, whereas marriage and higher education lower the hazard of leaving for non-employment.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutet för Ekonomisk forskning
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
41302-41302
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Review of Agricultural Economics
Volym
35
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Economics and Business
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Inter-sectoral transitions
- disctrete-time competing risks model
- agriculture
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0165-1587