Volume 9, Number 4 (Fall) 1974
Barnes, William F., and Ethel B. Jones. 1974. "Differences in Male and Female Quitting." Journal of Human Resources 9(4):439-451.
Establishment data on labor turnover and household data on job movement and labor market exit are used to distinguish between male and female quitting to exit the labor force and quitting to move to another job. Quitting to exit is larger for females and quitting to move to another job is larger for males. Total female quitting is usually larger than male quitting, while male quitting is more variable. For both sexes, age is nonmonotonically related to the level of quits, and higher earnings decrease the level of quits. The relationships of quit level and variability to age and earnings are different between men and women.
The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor and Professor of Economics, University of Georgia. We wish to thank H. Gregg Lewis and the anonymous referees for their helpful comments upon earlier drafts of this paper. We, of course, accept responsibility for our own interpretation of those comments.
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