RESEARCH BRIEF | MARCH 2023 - Why Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?

Rather than large shares of workers leaving the ranks This is significantly higher than the 25% of older of the employed, the far more common outcome was service sector workers (25 and older) who left their to either stay put in their job or to move from one job over the same period (Figure 1). [...] We focus on detailed overview of who these workers are, see an younger workers in the service sector, the workers at earlier brief on early career workers in the service the very heart of the “Great Resignation.” sector.13 In general, we find that younger workers in the service sector often faced challenging job To do so, we draw on data collected between Spring conditions in the form of low pay,. [...] Young Workers’ Feelings About Their Jobs as a Function of Advancement Opportunity Overall, we find that two precursors to job turnover up surveys with workers, we can also examine which – job satisfaction and intention to find a new job – workers did, in fact, leave their jobs, and how their job were strongly patterned by younger workers’ job exits were associated with the quality of their initial. [...] Rather than large shares of workers Function of Job Leaving leaving the ranks of the employed, the far more common outcome was to either stay put in their job or to move from one job to a new position. [...] The comparatively large share of workers moved to a new job within the pharmacy sub-sector, exiting food service highlights the precarity of this 39% to a new job in a new sub-sector of the service sector.