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A 2007 analysis of Health and Retirement Study data for Americans 45-75 found that "only about 23 percent of older job changers who left long-term employers remained in the same detailed occupation category on their new jobs... More than half moved into different broadly defined occupations." (p. iv)
Johnson, R. W., & Kawachi, J. (2007). Job changes at older ages: Effects on wages, benefits, and other job attributes. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Retrieved from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/311435_Job_Changes.pdf
This report uses data from the Health and Retirement Study of Americans over age 50. It compares wages, benefits, and other job attributes on new and former jobs for adults ages 45 to 75 who changed employers between 1986 and 2004. The sample consisted of 8,362 job changes by 5,541 different respondents.
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