Qualité de l’emploi et aspirations professionnelles : quels liens avec la mobilité volontaire des jeunes salariés en CDI ?

This article studies the impact of job quality and professional wishes of the young workers on the voluntary job mobility (quits). From French data on a generation of young workers starting their professional career and employed on permanent contracts, our results indicate that it?s the workers who wish to improve their situation in terms of wage, autonomy, or work recognition, who will have a stronger probability of deliberately quitting their job. At the same time, these are part-time workers who have more probability to experience a voluntary mobility rather than an imposed one. A high professional position in the firm (be an executive) also increases this probability. Finally, our empirical results on post-mobility situation show that voluntary mobility is more associated with an improvement or a stabilization of the professional situation of the workers.