Philly Fed paper explains low US job separation rates

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Experienced workers' reluctance to leave their jobs has contributed to the decline in job separation rates and increased the pool of low-quality job matches in the US, according to a Philadelphia Federal Reserve paper published on Friday.

Shigeru Fujita, the paper's author, uses a labour-matching model with two types of workers – experienced and inexperienced – to explain the secular decline in the aggregate job separation rate over the past three decades. While existing studies link the decline

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