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Dieses Themendossier bietet Literaturhinweise zur beruflichen Mobilitätsforschung in Deutschland und in anderen Ländern. Sie erschließt theoretische Ansätze und empirische Ergebnisse - beispielsweise zu den Fragen: Sind Berufswechsel lohnend? Für wen sind sie mit besonderen Risiken verbunden? Wie gut lassen sich bei einem beruflichen Neustart die bisher erworbenen Qualifikationen verwerten?
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    The estimation methods of occupational skills transferability (2016)

    Nawakitphaitoon, Kritkorn ; Ormiston, Russell;

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    Nawakitphaitoon, Kritkorn & Russell Ormiston (2016): The estimation methods of occupational skills transferability. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 49, H. 4, S. 317-327., 2016-09-21. DOI:10.1007/s12651-016-0216-y

    Abstract

    "Dieser Beitrag vergleicht zwei Methoden zur Einschätzung der Übertragbarkeit beruflicher Kompetenzen sowohl in theoretischer als auch empirischer Hinsicht. Die erste Methode basiert auf der Studie von Shaw (1984), die zweite auf der Studie von Ormiston (2014). Der Hauptunterschied zwischen den beiden dort verwendeten Methoden liegt darin, dass die Übertragbarkeit der Kompetenzen nach Shaw ein 'marktorientierter' Ansatz ist. Die Bewertung erfolgt anhand eines tatsächlichen Berufswechsels. Die Übertragbarkeit der Kompetenzen nach Ormiston hingegen ist ein 'kompetenzorientierter' Ansatz, der auf der Grundlage von Wissen, Kompetenzen und Fähigkeiten über Beschäftigungen hinweg bewertet wird.
    Obwohl diese beiden Ansätze sehr verschiedene Einschätzungen der Übertragbarkeit beruflicher Kompetenzen liefern, erklären beide Methoden wirkungsvoll die Einkommensverluste der freigesetzten Arbeitskräfte. Insbesondere haben freigesetzte Arbeitskräfte, die Beschäftigungen finden, die, gemessen an der Übertragbarkeit beruflicher Kompetenzen, ihren früheren Beschäftigungen stärker ähneln, im Durchschnitt geringere Einkommensverluste als diejenigen, die weniger ähnliche Beschäftigungen finden." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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    Bounded or boundaryless?: an empirical investigation of career boundaries and boundary crossing (2016)

    Rodrigues, Ricardo ; Budjanovcanin, Alexandra; Guest, David;

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    Rodrigues, Ricardo, David Guest & Alexandra Budjanovcanin (2016): Bounded or boundaryless? An empirical investigation of career boundaries and boundary crossing. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 30, H. 4, S. 669-686. DOI:10.1177/0950017015570726

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    "The article argues that the long-running debate between organizationally bounded and boundaryless careers has been too narrow and neglects the variety and distinctive characteristics of career boundaries. Drawing on boundary theory, it investigates the main career-relevant domains and boundaries, and the motivations and structural conditions that influence boundary crossing or having a career within a specific domain among a sample of professional pharmacists. The qualitative study shows that careers are enacted within a number of relevant domains and are shaped by a range of boundaries such that boundarylessness and embeddedness are co-existing career dimensions. It also reveals how even within a professional population careers are embedded within diverse social and cultural contexts that impose differing constraints on career mobility. The article therefore provides a fuller, more nuanced understanding of career boundaries and contemporary careers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The impact of education on intergenerational occupational mobility in Spain (2016)

    Ruiz, Antonio Caparrós;

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    Ruiz, Antonio Caparrós (2016): The impact of education on intergenerational occupational mobility in Spain. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 92, H. February, S. 94-104. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2015.11.010

    Abstract

    "Intergenerational occupational mobility is a topic that has attracted considerable interest in the sociological and economic literature for developed countries. In particular, one of the central issues in political debate is the role of education on the intergenerational social mobility. The modern capitalist economies are characterised by continual technological changes which lead to the need of a highly skilled workforce. In this potentially meritocratic society, the equality of opportunities, the efficient allocation of talent and the education can be instruments that encourage the social mobility and decrease the effect of the parents' economic status on the career of their children. This paper takes into account these facts and sheds empirical evidence for Spain about the relationships between social origin, educational attainment and occupational destination. The methodology applied consists of the specification and estimation of discrete choice models, and the empirical analysis is based on data provided by the Living Condition Survey (LCS) conducted for the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE)." (Author's abstract, © 2015 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Occupational mobility chains and the role of job opportunities for upward, lateral and downward mobility in Switzerland (2016)

    Sacchi, Stefan ; Buchmann, Marlis; Kriesi, Irene ;

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    Sacchi, Stefan, Irene Kriesi & Marlis Buchmann (2016): Occupational mobility chains and the role of job opportunities for upward, lateral and downward mobility in Switzerland. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 44, H. June, S. 10-21. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2015.12.001

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    "This paper addresses the rarely studied relationship between job vacancies and inter-firm upward, lateral, and downward status mobility in an occupationally segmented labor market, taking Switzerland as the example. To conceptualize mobility mechanisms in this type of labor market, we introduce the concept of 'occupational mobility chains' and test its validity. This concept provides the backdrop for developing time-dependent measures of individual job opportunities based on Swiss Job Monitor data. We link these measures with career data taken from the Swiss Life History Study and employ event history analysis to test different propositions of the ways in which status mobility is contingent on the number and the status of vacant positions. Results support our assumption that in occupationally segmented labor markets vacant positions affect status mobility only to the degree that they are located within workers' occupational mobility chains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus (2015)

    Amior, Michael;

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    Amior, Michael (2015): Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically? The role of the job surplus. (CEP discussion paper 1338), London, 58 S.

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    "The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome those frictions (specifically moving costs) which plague cross-city matching in particular. I reject the alternative hypothesis that mobility differences are driven by variation in the moving costs themselves, based on PSID evidence on self-reported willingness to move. Evidence on wage processes also supports my claims." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Income inequality and intergenerational income mobility in the United States (2015)

    Bloome, Deirdre ;

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    Bloome, Deirdre (2015): Income inequality and intergenerational income mobility in the United States. In: Social forces, Jg. 93, H. 3, S. 1047-1080. DOI:10.1093/sf/sou092

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    "Is there a relationship between family income inequality and income mobility across generations in the United States? As family income inequality rose in the United States, parental resources available for improving children's health, education, and care diverged. The amount and rate of divergence also varied across US states. Researchers and policy analysts have expressed concern that relatively high inequality might be accompanied by relatively low mobility, tightening the connection between individuals' incomes during childhood and adulthood. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and various government sources, this paper exploits state and cohort variation to estimate the relationship between inequality and mobility. Results provide very little support for the hypothesis that inequality shapes mobility in the United States. The inequality children experienced during youth had no robust association with their economic mobility as adults. Formal analysis reveals that offsetting effects could underlie this result. In theory, mobility-enhancing forces may counterbalance mobility-reducing effects. In practice, the results suggest that in the US context, the intergenerational transmission of income may not be very responsive to changes in inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Qualifikationsnachfrage und Arbeitsmarkteintritt in der Schweiz: Arbeit im erlernten Beruf, Berufswechsel oder Arbeitslosigkeit (2015)

    Buchs, Helen; Buchmann, Marlis; Müller, Barbara;

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    Buchs, Helen, Barbara Müller & Marlis Buchmann (2015): Qualifikationsnachfrage und Arbeitsmarkteintritt in der Schweiz. Arbeit im erlernten Beruf, Berufswechsel oder Arbeitslosigkeit. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 67, H. 4, S. 709-736. DOI:10.1007/s11577-015-0342-5

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    "Berufsorientierte Bildungssysteme sind auf die Vermittlung von spezialisierten beruflichen Qualifikationen ausgelegt. Werden diese nach Abschluss einer beruflichen Grundbildung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wenig nachgefragt, riskieren die Absolventen, die erworbenen berufsspezifischen Qualifikationen nicht verwerten zu können. Dies trifft nicht nur zu, wenn Arbeitsmarkteinsteiger arbeitslos werden, sondern auch, wenn sie den Beruf wechseln müssen. Für die drei verschiedenen Optionen des Arbeitsmarkteinstiegs - Arbeit im erlernten Beruf, Berufswechsel und Arbeitslosigkeit - wird erstens untersucht, welche Bedeutung das individuell passende und das fachfremde Stellenangebot hat. Zweitens wird analysiert, wie eine unterschiedlich ausgeprägte Nachfrage nach fachspezifischen Qualifikationen die Bedeutung ausbildungsbezogener und individueller Merkmale für den Berufseinstieg verändert. Die Schweiz mit ihrem berufsorientierten Bildungssystem und berufsfachlich segmentieren Arbeitsmarkt dient als empirische Referenz. Die multinominalen logistischen Regressionsmodelle basieren auf den Daten des Schweizer Jugendpanels PISA2000/TREE. Die Individualdaten von Lehrabgänger werden auf Berufsebene, zeitpunkt- und regionsspezifisch mit dem individuell passenden und fachfremden Stellenangebot verknüpft, das auf den Stelleninseratendaten des Stellenmarktmonitors Schweiz (SMM) beruht. Dank dieser Verknüpfung von Angebot und Nachfrage nach beruflichen Qualifikationen auf der Mikroebene kann zum ersten Mal die grundlegende Bedeutung der Personalnachfrage für den Berufseinstieg nachgewiesen werden." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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    Breaking the 'class' ceiling? Social mobility into Britain's elite occupations (2015)

    Friedman, Sam; Miles, Andrew ; Laurison, Daniel;

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    Friedman, Sam, Daniel Laurison & Andrew Miles (2015): Breaking the 'class' ceiling? Social mobility into Britain's elite occupations. In: The sociological review, Jg. 63, H. 2, S. 259-289. DOI:10.1111/1467-954X.12283

    Abstract

    "In this paper we use the unusually large sample size of the Great British Class Survey to compare rates of social mobility into different elite occupations. We find a distinction between 'traditional' professions, such as law, medicine and finance, which are dominated by the children of higher managers and professionals, and technical or emerging high-status occupations, particularly those related to IT, that appear to recruit more widely. Second, we find that even when the upwardly mobile are successful in entering elite occupations they invariably fail to accumulate the same economic, cultural and social capital as those from privileged backgrounds. While many such differences may be explained by inheritance, we also find that the mobile tend to have considerably lower incomes. Investigating this further we demonstrate that even when controlling for important variables such as schooling, education, location, age, and cultural and social capital, the upwardly mobile in eight occupations - located largely in the business sector - have considerably lower incomes than their higher-origin colleagues. These findings underline the value of analyses of mobility into specific high-status occupations as well as illustrating how, beyond entry, the mobile often face considerable disadvantage within occupations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The U-shapes of occupational mobility (2015)

    Groes, Fane; Kircher, Philipp; Manovskii, Iourii;

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    Groes, Fane, Philipp Kircher & Iourii Manovskii (2015): The U-shapes of occupational mobility. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 82, H. 2, S. S 659-692. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdu037

    Abstract

    "Using administrative panel data on the entire Danish population we document a new set of facts characterizing occupational mobility. For most occupations, mobility is U-shaped and directional: not only low but also high wage earners within an occupation have a particularly large probability of leaving their occupation, and the low (high) earners tend to switch to new occupations with lower (higher) average wages. Exceptions to this pattern of two-sided selection are occupations with steeply rising (declining) productivity, where mainly the lower (higher) paid workers within this occupation tend to leave. The facts conflict with several existing theories that are used to account for endogeneity in occupational choice, but it is shown analytically that the patterns are explained consistently within a theory of vertical sorting under absolute advantage that includes learning about workers' abilities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Understanding the decline in self-employment among individuals nearing retirement (2015)

    Heim, Bradley T.;

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    Heim, Bradley T. (2015): Understanding the decline in self-employment among individuals nearing retirement. In: Small business economics, Jg. 45, H. 3, S. 561-580. DOI:10.1007/s11187-015-9660-2

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    "This paper examines the sources of the decline in self-employment among near-retirees over 1994 - 2012. Using Current Population Survey data, tabulations imply that the decline was driven by an increase in the exit rate to wage and salary employment, a decline in the rate of self-employment among new entrants into this age cohort, and an increase in the share of these new entrants. Multinomial logits suggest that health insurance coverage and after-tax prices of health insurance were significantly associated with these three rates. However, counterfactual simulations suggest that only the changes in after-tax prices of health insurance were found to appreciably influence the trends in these rates, though in the opposite direction of the actual declining trend for the rate of self-employment of new entrants." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The great escape: Intergenerational mobility since 1940 (2015)

    Hilger, Nathaniel G.;

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    Hilger, Nathaniel G. (2015): The great escape: Intergenerational mobility since 1940. (NBER working paper 21217), Cambrige, Mass., 67 S. DOI:10.3386/w21217

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    "Tax records indicate that intergenerational mobility (IM) has been stable for cohorts entering the labor market since the 1990s. I show that when using educational attainment as a proxy for adult income, stable IM is a new phenomenon: IM rose significantly for cohorts entering the labor market from 1940 to 1980. I measure IM directly in historical Census data for children still living with their parents at ages 22-25, and indirectly for other children using an imputation procedure that I validate in multiple data sets with parent-child links spanning the full 1940-2000 period. Post-war mobility gains were larger in the South and for blacks, and were driven by gains in high school rather than college enrollment. Controlling for region and year, states with higher IM have had lower income inequality, higher income levels, more educational inputs, higher minimum dropout ages, and lower teen birth rates. IM gains plausibly increased aggregate annual earnings growth by 0.125-0.25 percentage points over the 1940-1980 period." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A summary of what we know about social mobility (2015)

    Hout, Michael;

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    Hout, Michael (2015): A summary of what we know about social mobility. In: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jg. 657, H. 1, S. 27-36. DOI:10.1177/0002716214547174

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    "Academic research on social mobility from the 1960s until now has made several facts clear. First, and most important, it is better to ask how the conditions and circumstances of early life constrain adult success than to ask who is moving up and who is not. The focus on origins keeps the substantive issues of opportunity and fairness in focus, while the mobility question leads to confusing side issues. Second, mobility is intrinsically symmetrical; each upward move is offset by a downward move in the absence of growth, expansion, or immigration. Third, social origins are not a single dimension of inequality that can be paired with the outcome of interest (without significant excluded variable bias); they are a comprehensive set of conditions describing the circumstances of youth. Fourth, the constraints of social origins vary by time, place, and subpopulation. These four 'knowns' should inform any attempt to collect new data on mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Early career occupational mobility of Turkish and Moroccan second generation migrants in Flanders, Belgium (2015)

    Laurijssena, Ilse; Glorieuxa, Ignace;

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    Laurijssena, Ilse & Ignace Glorieuxa (2015): Early career occupational mobility of Turkish and Moroccan second generation migrants in Flanders, Belgium. In: Journal of Youth Studies, Jg. 18, H. 1, S. 101-117. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2014.933194

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    "This article analyses the early career occupational mobility of people from a Turkish or Moroccan descent in Flanders (Belgium). Previous research showed that second generation migrants are less successful than natives when entering the labour market. We compare the progress in socio-economic status (SES) that youngsters of native and non-native descent make from their first to later jobs at the start of their career. Both second-generation immigrants and native majority young adults experience upward occupational mobility during this crucial phase of their occupational career. The gap between native and ethnic minority youth, however, does not narrow over the course of the years. The first job offers less SES for non-natives compared to that of natives, and the minority-native gap in occupational attainment remains constant afterwards. The future career is largely determined by the characteristics of the start of the occupational career, and educational attainment even before. Promising, however, might be the finding that a first job with a relative low occupational status does offer better opportunities for Turkish and Moroccan second-generation migrants than for native majority youth to do some catching up later on. In combination with a long-term negative impact of initial unemployment, ethnic minority youth perhaps are best off with starting to work as soon as possible after school leaving." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Wage risk and the value of job mobility in early employment careers (2015)

    Liu, Kai;

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    Liu, Kai (2015): Wage risk and the value of job mobility in early employment careers. (IZA discussion paper 9256), Bonn, 47 S.

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    "This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the model is the specification of wage shocks at the worker- firm match level, for workers can respond to these shocks by changing jobs. The model is estimated using a sample of young male workers from the 1996 panel of Survey of Income and Program Participation. The first result is that the variance of match-level shocks is large, and the consequent value of job mobility is substantial. The second result is that true wage risk is almost three times as large as the wage variance observed after job mobility, which is what other papers in the literature have called wage risk. This suggests a very different picture of the risks facing employed workers in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Determinants of declining wage mobility in the new economy (2015)

    Maume, David J.; Wilson, George;

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    Maume, David J. & George Wilson (2015): Determinants of declining wage mobility in the new economy. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 42, H. 1, S. 35-72. DOI:10.1177/0730888414552707

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    "This study draws from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey to compare patterns of wage mobility among the late boomer and millennial cohorts of young men. Estimating group-based trajectory models, the authors find that fewer men enjoyed rapid wage growth and more men fell into the steady and stagnant wage-trajectory groups. Furthermore, employment patterns in the new economy (e.g., changing employers, more part-time employment, and employment in low-end service occupations) increasingly determine the mobility rates of millennials compared with boomers and are stronger predictors of mobility chances in the millennial cohort than are family background and cognitive skills." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Using occupation to measure intergenerational mobility (2015)

    Mazumder, Bhashkar; Acosta, Miguel;

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    Mazumder, Bhashkar & Miguel Acosta (2015): Using occupation to measure intergenerational mobility. In: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jg. 657, H. 1, S. 174-193. DOI:10.1177/0002716214552056

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    "Scholarly investigations of intergenerational mobility typically focus on either the occupations of fathers and sons or their incomes. Using an identical sample of fathers and sons, we examine how estimates of intergenerational mobility in income and occupational prestige are affected by (1) measurement that uses long time averages and (2) varying the point in the life cycle when outcomes are measured. We find that intergenerational occupational mobility is overstated when using a single year of fathers' occupation compared to a 10-year average centered on mid-career. We also find that for both income and occupation, mobility estimates are largest when sons are in their mid-career, suggesting that this may be the ideal period in which to measure their status. Finally, we see differences in the pattern of estimates across the two types of measures: for income, estimates of intergenerational persistence are highest when fathers are in their mid-career; for occupation, estimates are much larger when fathers' occupations are accounted for late in their careers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Estimating occupational mobility with covariates (2015)

    Modalsli, Jørgen ;

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    Modalsli, Jørgen (2015): Estimating occupational mobility with covariates. In: Economics letters, Jg. 133, H. August, S. 77-80. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.017

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    "The Altham statistic is often used to calculate intergenerational associations in occupations in studies of historical social mobility. This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates of social mobility, and to construct corresponding confidence intervals. The method is applied to an intergenerational sample of Norwegian data, showing that estimates of intergenerational mobility are robust to the inclusion of controls for father's and son's age." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    How specific is apprenticeship training? Evidence from inter-firm and occupational mobility after graduation (2015)

    Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Jürg;

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    Mueller, Barbara & Jürg Schweri (2015): How specific is apprenticeship training? Evidence from inter-firm and occupational mobility after graduation. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 67, H. 4, S. 1057-1077. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpv040

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    "Do apprenticeships convey mainly general or also firm- and occupation-specific human capital? Specific human capital may allow for specialization gains, but may also lead to allocative inefficiency due to mobility barriers. We analyse the case of Switzerland, which combines a comprehensive, high-quality apprenticeship system with a lightly regulated labour market. To assess human capital transferability after standardized firm-based apprenticeship training, we analyse inter-firm and occupational mobility and their effects on post-training wages. Using a longitudinal data set based on the PISA 2000 survey, we find high inter-firm and low occupational mobility within one year after graduation. Accounting for endogenous changes, we find a negative effect of occupation changes on wages, but no significant wage effect for firm changes. This indicates that occupation-specific human capital is an important component of apprenticeship training and that skills are highly transferable within an occupational field." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK (2015)

    Salvatori, Andrea;

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    Salvatori, Andrea (2015): The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK. (IZA discussion paper 9193), Bonn, 53 S.

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    "This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last three decades, with growth in top jobs always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top occupations have gained over 80% of the employment shares lost by middling occupations. The decline of middling occupations is entirely accounted for by non-graduates who have seen their relative numbers decrease and the distribution of their employment shift towards the bottom of the occupational skill distribution. The increase at the top is entirely accounted for by compositional changes, as a result of the increase in the number of graduates since the 1990s. Employment has not polarised for graduates, but has become less concentrated in top occupations, especially in the 2000s. The paper also documents that job polarisation has not been matched by wage polarisation across the occupational distribution in any decade and discusses how these new findings relate to the existing evidence for the US and to the prevailing technology-based explanation for job polarisation. Overall, the importance of occupational changes between skill groups and the performance of occupational wages over time cast doubts on the role of technology as the main driver of polarisation in the UK. In particular, the evidence suggests that supply-side changes are likely to be important factors in explaining why high-skill occupations continued to grow in the 2000s even as they stalled in the US." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    What do we know so far about multigenerational mobility? (2015)

    Solon, Gary;

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    Solon, Gary (2015): What do we know so far about multigenerational mobility? (NBER working paper 21053), Cambrige, Mass., 23 S. DOI:10.3386/w21053

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    "'Multigenerational mobility' refers to the associations in socioeconomic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarizing the longstanding but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility. It then discusses multiple theoretical interpretations of the empirical patterns, including the one recently proposed in Gregory Clark's book The Son Also Rises." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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