Here is the breakdown by industry http://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.t05.htm
and occupation http://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.t06.htm
Please note shorter median tenure in services, whose share vis a vis mfg has been constantly growing. Please also note the difference between professional and managerial service and production occupations vs other service occupation.
Wojtek
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 9:28 AM
>
> Do you have a breakdown by industry?
>
> I suspect that the perception of 'disappearing job tenures'
> may be partly due to the fact that is happening only in the
> high profile sectors of the US economy (such as the auto
> industry) but in other sectors it was always "employment at
> will," high turnover, etc. So the "disappearing
> tenures" in high profile industries create an illusion that
> the US job market as a whole is going to the dogs, whereas
> in reality it has been there all the time, except for a few
> high profile sectors.
>
> Wojtek
>
> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 2:58 PM
> >
> > On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
> >
> > > Does "temporary and flexible" neccessarily mean
> > part-time or temp? The
> > > number of careers and jobs an American has over
> her
> > lifetime has increased,
> > > for instance.
> >
> > That's not all that clear either. Here's the history
> on job
> > tenure. Note that the median number of years on the
> job for
> > men in 2008 was about a year below what it was in
> 1966, but
> > that's offset by an increase for women, leaving the
> overall
> > figure unchanged. Similiarly with the share of workers
> on
> > the same job for 10 years or more - though those stats
> only
> > begin in 1983.
> >
> >
> > all
> > men women
> >
> > median job tenure (years)
> > 1951
> > 3.4
> > 3.9 2.2
> > 1963
> > 4.6
> > 5.7 3.0
> > 1966
> > 4.2
> > 5.2 2.8
> > 1968
> > 3.8
> > 4.8 2.4
> > 1973
> > 3.9
> > 4.6 2.8
> > 1978
> > 3.6
> > 4.5 2.6
> > 1981
> > 3.2
> > 4.0 2.5
> > 1983
> > 3.5
> > 4.1 3.1
> > 1987
> > 3.4
> > 4.0 3.0
> > 1991
> > 3.6
> > 4.1 3.2
> > 1996
> > 3.8
> > 4.0 3.5
> > 1998
> > 3.6
> > 3.8 3.4
> > 2000
> > 3.5
> > 3.8 3.3
> > 2002
> > 3.7
> > 3.9 3.4
> > 2004
> > 4.0
> > 4.1 3.8
> > 2006
> > 4.0
> > 4.1 3.9
> > 2008
> > 4.1
> > 4.2 3.9
> >
> > share of over-25 with >10 years
> > 1983 31.9
> > 37.7 24.9
> > 1987 30.7
> > 35.0 25.7
> > 1991 32.2
> > 35.9 28.2
> > 1996 30.5
> > 33.1 27.6
> > 1998 30.7
> > 32.7 28.4
> > 2000 31.5
> > 33.4 29.5
> > 2002 30.8
> > 32.6 28.8
> > 2004 30.6
> > 32.4 28.6
> > 2006 30.0
> > 31.1 28.8
> > 2008 31.5
> > 32.9 30.0
> >
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