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May 2004

Job mobility and hourly wages: is there a relationship?

Mustapha Hammida

There is a positive correlation between wages and tenure in Minnesota; specifically, workers earning high wages exhibit high tenure and change jobs less frequently compared with workers earning low wages.

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