Analysis of Length of Employment Data and Suggestions The question as asked is "How many weeks have the people who are working now been at their jobs?" This is different than asking, say, how many weeks a person worked in the past year. Our sample would not include a person who had found a job earlier in the year, worked for forty weeks and then was again unemployed. Likewise a high school student who just graduated would not have been unemployed the whole year but might still be included in such a sample.
There is a positive correlation between the age of the person and the number of weeks at the new job. This means that older workers tend to have more weeks at their new jobs than younger workers do. Some possible causes for this trend are:
The jobs that younger workers are finding are more likely to be dissolved.
It takes younger workers longer to find work.
Younger workers are not keeping their jobs as long.
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