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Berufliche Mobilität

Eine Tätigkeit, die mehr Spaß verspricht, ein höheres Gehalt oder bessere Entwicklungsperspektiven: Es gibt viele Gründe, nicht länger im erlernten oder ausgeübten Beruf tätig zu sein. Nicht immer sind sie jedoch so erfreulich: Auslöser kann auch eine Entlassung sein.

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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    Does Performance Pay Deter Job Quits? (2025)

    Artz, Benjamin ; Heywood, John S. ;

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    Artz, Benjamin & John S. Heywood (2025): Does Performance Pay Deter Job Quits? (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17791), Bonn, 35 S.

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    "We use US longitudinal survey data to examine the role of performance pay (other than profit sharing) in worker quit decisions. We argue that performance pay should increasingly be viewed as an indicator of an internal labor market rather than of a simple contemporaneous incentive. Suggestive of this claim, we find that in ever more complete specifications that account for worker and employer characteristics, aggregate earnings and worker job satisfaction, performance pay is associated with a reduced probability of worker quits. This remains when including worker fixed effects that control for unmeasured invariant heterogeneity. We investigate how it varies with the type of performance pay and its intensity. We confirm heterogeneity in this influence by workplace size." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Erfolgreiche Jobwechsel: Wie berufliche Mobilität Einkommen und Arbeitszufriedenheit steigert (2025)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Klauser, Roman; Heinze, Inga; Hörnig, Lukas ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Inga Heinze, Lukas Hörnig & Roman Klauser (2025): Erfolgreiche Jobwechsel. Wie berufliche Mobilität Einkommen und Arbeitszufriedenheit steigert. Gütersloh, 67 S. DOI:10.11586/2024198

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    "Die Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen beruflicher Mobilität auf das Einkommen und die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Sie zeigt, dass ein Stellenwechsel häufig mit einem Zuwachs an Einkommen und Zufriedenheit verbunden ist – vor allem bei Unzufriedenen. Die größten Gewinne ergeben sich bei Wechseln in Berufe mit neuen Tätigkeiten und Anforderungen, aber auch Wechsel in den gleichen Beruf sind mit Einkommens- und Zufriedenheitszuwächsen verbunden. Die Analysen basieren auf der Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB) und dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP). Die Studie ist entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Ronald Bachmann und seinem Autorenteam bestehend aus Inga Heinze, Dr. Lukas Hörnig und Roman Klauser." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Beyond Human Capital: Mobility intentions, IT skills, and the Early Gender Wage Gap (2025)

    Barigozzi, Francesca ; Montinari, Natalia ; Tampieri, Alessandro; Righetto, Giovanni ;

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    Barigozzi, Francesca, Natalia Montinari, Giovanni Righetto & Alessandro Tampieri (2025): Beyond Human Capital: Mobility intentions, IT skills, and the Early Gender Wage Gap. (Quaderni - working paper DSE / Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics 1212), Bologna, 34 S.

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    "In most countries, women systematically outperform men in academic achievement across fields of study. Yet within a year of graduation, they earn less, face lower employment rates, and are more likely to work part-time. If human capital were the sole determinant of pay, this pattern would be difficult to reconcile. We address this puzzle by extending the statistical discrimination framework 'a la Phelps (1972) to include not only human capital but also additional components of productivity, such as IT skills and mobility intentions -the willingness to travel or relocate for work -which might capture candidates' technological proficiency and adaptability. Using rich microdata from the AlmaLaurea survey of master's graduates from the University of Bologna (2015–2022), we show that while human capital alone predicts no gender wage gap in favor of men, combining it with mobility intentions reproduces the early wage disadvantage observed for women in Economics and Engineering. We further show that IT skills -an observable CV trait constructed from multiple IT-skill items- reduce the residual gender wage gap, especially in Engineering. Our findings highlight the importance of complementing human capital with field-specific preference and skill traits to explain-and potentially address-early gender wage gaps." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Testing the Psychological Costs of Intergenerational Social Mobility: Evidence from a German Panel Study (2025)

    Becker, Michael ; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen ; Wagner, Jenny ; Neugebauer, Martin ;

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    Becker, Michael, Lilly-Marlen Bihler, Martin Neugebauer & Jenny Wagner (2025): Testing the Psychological Costs of Intergenerational Social Mobility: Evidence from a German Panel Study. In: Social Science & Medicine, Jg. 384. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118522

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    "This study investigates the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility, focusing on both upward and downward mobility. While prior research has often overlooked the role of selection effects, we explicitly disentangle whether disparities in mental health and well-being are attributable to the experience of social mobility itself or to pre-existing individual differences. Using data from a German panel study that follows individuals from late adolescence (age 18) into work-life (age 30), we assess psychological adjustment for different forms of social mobility based on individuals’ own educational attainment relative to theirparents’. We apply entropy balancing to compare models with and without adjustment for selection effects. Initial results, unadjusted for selection, show that downward mobility is linked to poorer mental health and well-being, supporting the “falling-from-grace” hypothesis. In contrast, upward mobility shows no significant association with mental health outcomes, aligning with the “acculturation” hypothesis. Crucially, when accounting for selection, the apparent disadvantages of downward mobility disappear. Our findings suggest that psychological costs attributed to social mobility are primarily the result of pre-existing vulnerabilities rather than mobility itself, emphasizing the importance of considering selection processes in research on social mobility and health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.) ((en))

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    Der Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Herkunft und der zurückgelegten räumlichen Distanz am Übergang von der Schule in eine Ausbildung oder ein Studium (2025)

    Behringer, Tom;

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    Behringer, Tom (2025): Der Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Herkunft und der zurückgelegten räumlichen Distanz am Übergang von der Schule in eine Ausbildung oder ein Studium. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 54, H. 3, S. 322-341. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2022

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    "Mehrere Studien konstatieren einen Einfluss der sozialen Herkunft auf die räumliche Distanz, die junge Erwachsene am Übergang von der Schule in ein Studium zurücklegen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, inwiefern die soziale Herkunft auch mit der zurückgelegten räumlichen Distanz am Übergang von der Schule in eine Ausbildung zusammenhängt. Darüber hinaus wird analysiert, inwiefern sich der Zusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft und zurückgelegter räumlicher Distanz danach unterscheidet, ob eine Ausbildung, ein Fachhochschulstudium oder ein Universitätsstudium aufgenommen wird, da diese Differenzierung bislang ebenfalls wenig berücksichtigt wurde. Zur Bearbeitung der beiden Forschungsbedarfe werden erstmals im Forschungsfeld die längsschnittlichen Daten der Startkohorten 3 und 4 des nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) verwendet und mit diesen multiple lineare Regressionsmodelle berechnet. Als zentrales Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass junge Erwachsene bei allen drei Arten von Übergängen gleichermaßen durch ein akademisches Elternhaus statt eines nicht-akademischen Elternhauses im Durchschnitt eine etwas größere räumliche Distanz zurücklegen. Dies weist angesichts der festgestellten Bedeutung von räumlicher Mobilität im Bildungsverlauf für den späteren Lebensverlauf darauf hin, dass bei allen drei Bildungswegen durch die herkunftsbedingt ungleiche räumliche Mobilität ungleiche bildungs- und arbeitsmarktbezogene Verwertungsmöglichkeiten von Bildungsabschlüssen nach der sozialen Herkunft bestehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Heterogeneous job ladders (2025)

    Borovičková, Katarína; Macaluso, Claudia;

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    Borovičková, Katarína & Claudia Macaluso (2025): Heterogeneous job ladders. In: Journal of monetary economics, Jg. 150. DOI:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103711

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    "We investigate different wage growth rates over the life cycle for poor and rich workers, and how they relate to the frequency and quality of job-to-job transitions. Using the universe of labor market histories for Austrian workers born in 1960–62 to, we show that workers who are at the bottom of the earnings distribution have higher employer-to-employer transition rates than richer workers throughout their life. Nevertheless, they work for worse- and worse-paying firms as they age and are more likely to undergo unemployment spells at all ages. We propose a structural framework with learning by doing and heterogeneity along five dimensions: initial level of human capital, learning ability, and job separation propensity on the worker side, and productivity level and quality of offered learning opportunities on the employer side. Our model replicates the wage gap and the difference in the frequency of labor market transitions we document in the data, and allows us to investigate several dimensions of heterogeneity in the quality of labor market transitions. We find that poor workers’ lacklusterwage growth stems from a combination of deteriorating human capital, employment in low-productivity jobs, and scarce on-the-job learning opportunities. We then evaluate a policy which matches low-wage workers to high-learning employers. We find that ameliorating the learning opportunities early in a worker’s career has a non-negligible impact on lifetime earnings. The gains from matching with a better employer greatly increase with job stability, as lower separation rates limit human capital depreciation and improve the odds of matching with high-productivity employers in the future." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier B.V.All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))

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    Employee-owned firms and the careers of young workers (2025)

    Burdin, Gabriel; Garcia-Louzao, Jose ;

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    Burdin, Gabriel & Jose Garcia-Louzao (2025): Employee-owned firms and the careers of young workers. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 93. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102686

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    "Using detailed administrative data from Spain, we characterize how a first work experience in an employee-owned firm (EOF) versus a conventional firm can affect workers’ careers. We find that workers’ exposure to EOFs at the time of entry reduces daily wages by 8% over the first 15 years in the labor market. The wage penalty appears to be driven by differences in job mobility and wage returns to experience rather than by non-random selection. We show that workers who had their first job in EOFs have a strong attachment to this organizational model and are less likely to experience both voluntary and involuntary job separations over their careers, with quit and layoff rates 8% and 4% lower, respectively. In addition, we quantify lower wage returns to experience in EOFs, although there are no differences in subsequent career progression in terms of promotions. Taken together, the analysis suggests the existence of other job amenities offered by EOFs that may compensate for flatter wage profiles." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Firm Pay and Worker Search (2025)

    Caldwell, Sydnee; Heining, Jörg; Haegele, Ingrid;

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    Caldwell, Sydnee, Ingrid Haegele & Jörg Heining (2025): Firm Pay and Worker Search. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33445), Cambridge, Mass, 142 S.

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    "Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay expectations and preferences over specific outside firms. Workers believe that they face considerable heterogeneity in their outside pay options, and direct their search toward firms they believe would pay them more. Workers' expected firm-specific pay premia are highly correlated with pay policies observed in administrative records and with workers' valuations of firm-specific amenities. Most workers are unwilling to search for a new Job - or leave their current firm - even for substantial pay increases. Switching costs are equivalent to 7 to 18% of a worker's annual pay. Attachment varies across firms, and cannot be explained by either differences in firm-specific amenities or switching costs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes (2025)

    Dobbelaere, Sabien ; Sovago, Sandor ; Prinz, Daniel ; McCormack, Grace ;

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    Dobbelaere, Sabien, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz & Sandor Sovago (2025): Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Jg. 235. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107036

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    "Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects persist even four years after the takeover and are consistent with job losses driven by involuntary separations. Few takeovers change labor market concentration meaningfully. Instead, restructuring at consolidating firms is likely to be an important mechanism behind our findings. Specifically, workers with skills that are already present at acquirers are less likely to be retained and overtime hours and part-time work are reduced." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))

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    The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility (2025)

    Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Landersø, Rasmus ; Heckman, James J. ;

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    Eshaghnia, Sadegh, James J. Heckman & Rasmus Landersø (2025): The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 43, H. S1, S. S269-S301. DOI:10.1086/732677

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    "This study explores relationships between parental resource trajectories and child development, and their implications for intergenerational mobility. By modifying the childskill formation technology to incorporate new skills during adolescence, we analyze theimportance of the timing of family resources on life outcomes, educational attainmentand participation in crime. Parental financial resources partially offset deficiencies innonpecuniary inputs to children’s human capital. Estimates of the intergenerational influ-ence on child outcomes are strongly influenced by the choice of lifetime versus snapshot parental income measures. The most predictive ages of children when family resourcesare measured vary by the outcome analyzed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Job-to-Job Mobility and Inflation (2025)

    Faccini, Renato ; Melosi, Leonardo;

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    Faccini, Renato & Leonardo Melosi (2025): Job-to-Job Mobility and Inflation. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 107, H. 4, S. 1027-1041. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01312

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    "The low rate of inflation observed in the United States over the past decade is hard to reconcile with traditional measures of labor market slack. We develop a theory-based indicator of interfirm-wage competition that can explain the missing inflation. Key to this result is a drop in the rate of on-the-job search, which lowers the intensity of interfirm-wage competition to retain or hire workers. We estimate the on-the-job search rate from aggregate labor-market flows and show that its recent drop is corroborated by survey data. During “the great resignation,” interfirm-wage competition rose, increasing inflation by around 1 percentage point in 2021." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))

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    Beruflicher Wandel in Rheinland-Pfalz: Nimmt die Bedeutung umweltschonender Kompetenzen zu? (2025)

    Faißt, Christian; Wapler, Rüdiger; Jahn, Daniel; Otto, Anne ; Hamann, Silke ; Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele ; Janser, Markus ;

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    Faißt, Christian, Silke Hamann, Daniel Jahn, Markus Janser, Anne Otto, Rüdiger Wapler & Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio (2025): Beruflicher Wandel in Rheinland-Pfalz: Nimmt die Bedeutung umweltschonender Kompetenzen zu? (IAB-Regional. Berichte und Analysen aus dem Regionalen Forschungsnetz. IAB Rheinland-Pfalz-Saarland 02/2025), Nürnberg, 39 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.RERPS.2502

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    "Die ökologische Transformation hat weitreichende Auswirkungen auf den gesamten Arbeitsmarkt und gleichfalls auf die Anforderungen in Berufen. So lässt sich in der jüngeren Vergangenheit in Deutschland ein Bedeutungswandel von Berufen mit überwiegend umweltbelastenden hin zu solchen mit mehr umweltschonenden Kompetenzen beobachten. Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Studie steht die Frage, welche Intensität dieser Wandel an Kompetenzen bei Berufen im Beobachtungszeitraum von 2013 bis 2022 in Rheinland-Pfalz aufweist. In der Studie wird zum einen betrachtet, wie sich der Stellenwert von umweltfreundlichen Berufen für die Gesamtbeschäftigung in diesem Bundesland sowie in dessen Regionen entwickelt hat. Zum anderen wird die Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Wirkungskanäle für den beruflichen Wandel analysiert. Die ökologische Transformation wird auf Grundlage eines Tätigkeitsansatzes untersucht. Hierzu wird für jeden Beruf der Greenness-of-Jobs-Index berechnet, welcher innerhalb jeden Berufs auf der Differenz von umweltfreundlichen („Green“) und umweltschädlichen („Brown“) Skills beruht. Im Bundesländervergleich liegt der Beschäftigtenanteil von Berufen mit Green Skills im Jahr 2022 in Rheinland-Pfalz (20,0 %) im Mittelfeld, dies gilt ebenfalls für den Beschäftigtenanteil von Berufen mit Brown Skills (18,4 %). In allen Bundesländern hat sich der Anteil der Beschäftigten in Berufen mit Green Skills stark erhöht, aber die Anteile der Beschäftigung in Berufen mit Brown Skills haben sich nur jeweils geringfügig verringert. Die Beschäftigung in Berufen mit Green Skills stieg in Rheinland-Pfalz von 2013 bis 2022 um 55 Prozent und damit erheblich stärker verglichen mit dem Zuwachs von Berufen mit Brown Skills (8,4 %) und auch dem Beschäftigungsaufbau insgesamt (16,1 %). Die Frage ist, welche Wirkungskanäle für diese Entwicklung verantwortlich sind. Hierfür wurden zwei unterschiedliche Effekte des beruflichen Wandels auf die Beschäftigung verglichen. Auf der einen Seite können neue Beschäftigungen in Berufen mit Green Skills aufgenommen werden, ohne dass sich die Kompetenzstruktur des Berufs verändert hat. Auf der anderen Seite können Kompetenzen in einem vorher als White oder Brown eingestuften Beruf sich derart geändert haben, dass dieser Beruf dann als einer mit Green Skills eingestuft wird. Die vergleichende Betrachtung der Entwicklung der Gesamtbeschäftigung – Effekte aufgrund von konstanter und veränderter Kompetenzstruktur – hat für Rheinland-Pfalz gezeigt, dass die Beschäftigung in Berufen mit Green Skills stärker dadurch gestiegen ist, dass die Zahl der Berufe, die 2022 (aber nicht 2013) zu den umweltschonenden Berufen zählen, zunahm, als durch die zusätzlich noch neu entstandenen Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in den Berufen. D. h. vor allem der Wandel innerhalb der Berufe spielt hier eine entscheidende Rolle. Die Beschäftigung in Berufen mit Brown Skills ist insgesamt nicht so stark gewachsen; der Bedeutungszuwachs in Berufen mit Brown Skills war unter Einbeziehung der Veränderung der Kompetenzstruktur höher als bei konstanter Kompetenzstruktur. Außerdem zeigt die Analyse zur Änderung der Struktur der neu begonnenen Beschäftigungen in Rheinland-Pfalz ebenfalls, dass sich deren Zusammensetzung zugunsten von Berufen mit Green Skills verändert hat. Zudem hat der Anteil von Beschäftigungswechseln aus Berufen mit White bzw. Brown Skills in solche mit Green Skills in der Vergangenheit deutlich zugenommen. Berufswechsel sind daher für den Wandel der Berufe im Zuge der ökologischen Transformation erheblich. Hinzu kommt, dass jüngere Menschen häufiger eine (duale) Berufsausbildung in einem Beruf mit vorwiegend umweltschützenden Skills begonnen haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    A Relative Measure of Economic Insecurity and the Nexus with Job Change (2025)

    Gallo, Alessandro; Pacei, Silvia ; Ferrante, Maria Rosaria;

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    Gallo, Alessandro, Silvia Pacei & Maria Rosaria Ferrante (2025): A Relative Measure of Economic Insecurity and the Nexus with Job Change. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 178, H. 1, S. 91-116. DOI:10.1007/s11205-025-03530-z

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    "Economic insecurity is attracting growing attention in the social well-being literature. However, there is still debate about its definition and measurement which deserve further and in depth study. Assuming that economic insecurity relates to the forward-looking perception of future outcomes based on past experience, we suggest a class of relative indices measuring the individual feeling of economic insecurity by considering relative past resource fluctuations. The innovation we implement in this context consists in considering relative changes, supposing that individuals evaluate each fluctuation based on their previous resource level. We take advantage of the measures suggested to study how economic insecurity may affect job mobility. Obtained results show that economic insecurity has a significant impact on the probability of changing jobs, and that its effect differs by gender and working experience." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe (2025)

    Granström, Olivia; Engzell, Per ;

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    Granström, Olivia & Per Engzell (2025): The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe. In: European Societies, S. 1-31. DOI:10.1162/euso.a.39

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    "How do opportunities for intergenerational mobility depend on where you live? We address this question using European Social Survey data, studying the association between parents' and children's occupation, and how it varies by region of residence. Absolute mobility, largely driven by shifts in occupational structure, differs from relative mobility, which reflects the extent to which opportunities are equal across social origins. Capital regions emerge as hubs of absolute, but not necessarily relative, mobility. Absolute mobility correlates with human capital, labor market, demographic, and spatial factors. In contrast, relative mobility is primarily shaped by economic disparities between social classes. Greater inequality entails less mobility, even comparing different places within a country." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The contribution of employer changes to aggregate wage mobility (2025)

    Hollandt, Nils Torben; Müller, Steffen ;

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    Hollandt, Nils Torben & Steffen Müller (2025): The contribution of employer changes to aggregate wage mobility. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 77, H. 2, S. 490-515. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpae038

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    "Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased. Employer-to-employer movers exhibit higher wage mobility, mainly due to changes in employer wage premia at job change. The massive structural changes following German unification temporarily led to a high number of movers, which in turn boosted aggregate wage mobility. Wage mobility is much lower at the bottom of the wage distribution, and the decline in aggregate wage mobility since the 1980s is concentrated there. The overall decline can be mostly attributed to a reduction in wage mobility per mover, which is due to a compositional shift toward lower-wage movers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford University Press) ((en))

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    Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States (2025)

    Hufe, Paul ; Schüle, Paul; Kobus, Martyna ; Peichl, Andreas ;

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    Hufe, Paul, Martyna Kobus, Andreas Peichl & Paul Schüle (2025): Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 180. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105162

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    "Is the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by leveraging a novel approach that allows us to measure inequality of opportunity in the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity in the US has increased by 58% from the cohort born in 1935 to the cohort of 1980. Increases are driven by a less opportunity-egalitarian income distribution for birth cohorts after 1950 and a less opportunity-egalitarian wealth distribution after 1960. Our findings suggest that the United States has consistently moved further away from a level playing field in recent decades." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))

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    Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century (2025)

    Jácome, Elisa; Naidu, Suresh ; Kuziemko, Ilyana;

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    Jácome, Elisa, Ilyana Kuziemko & Suresh Naidu (2025): Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century. In: Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 133, H. 1, S. 306-354. DOI:10.1086/732527

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    "We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples of the U.S.-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father’soccupation and own family income, we develop a mobility measure that allows forthe inclusion of non-whites and women for the 1910s–1970s birth cohorts. We Show that mobility increases between the 1910s and 1940s cohorts and that the decline of Black-white income gaps explains about half of this rise. We also find that excluding Black Americans, particularly women, considerably overstates the level of mobility fortwentieth-century birth cohorts while simultaneously understating its increase betweenthe 1910s and 1940s" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Impact of an Early-Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility (2025)

    Kaila, Martti; Nix, Emily ; Riukula, Krista ;

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    Kaila, Martti, Emily Nix & Krista Riukula (2025): The Impact of an Early-Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 43, H. 4, S. 1035-1062. DOI:10.1086/730322

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    "Children’s and parent’s incomes are highly correlated, yet little is known about how early career shocks contribute to this correlation. This paper focuses on a consequential labor market shock: job loss. We document three new results. First, adult children born into the Bottom 20% of the income distribution have double the unemployment following job loss compared with those from the top 20%, and 154% higher earnings losses. Second, this increases the rank-rank correlation 30% for those impacted. Third, richer parents provide career opportu-nities to their adult children after job loss, consistent with advantages from wealthy parents persisting well into adulthood." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020 (2025)

    Kim, Andrew Taeho ; Kim, ChangHwan ;

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    Kim, Andrew Taeho & ChangHwan Kim (2025): The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020. In: Sociological methods & research, S. 1-41. DOI:10.1177/00491241241303517

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    "Occupation is a construct prone to classification mismatches by coders and description inconsistency by respondents. We explore whether mismatches in occupational coding have recently increased, what factors are associated with the rise in mismatches, and how the rise affects estimates of intragenerational occupational mobility. Utilizing the 1991–2020 Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, which collects information on respondents’ current occupation and the previous year’s main occupation, we identify coding mismatches and compare the probabilities of occupational mobility based on four combinations of two variables. Our results show that not only do the estimates of occupational mobility between two adjacent years vary substantially across measures, but also that the magnitudes of intragenerational occupational mobility across measures become increasingly decoupled over time. We demonstrate that the likely cause of this divergence is the rise in coding mismatches between coders. We discuss the implications of our findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Psychosocial factors contributing to turnover intention among employees in the hospitality industry: a systematic review (2025)

    Krishnan, Sanggari ; Rathakrishnan, Balan ;

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    Krishnan, Sanggari & Balan Rathakrishnan (2025): Psychosocial factors contributing to turnover intention among employees in the hospitality industry: a systematic review. In: Current psychology, Jg. 44, H. 7, S. 5744-5765. DOI:10.1007/s12144-025-07550-3

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    "This systematic review discusses the psychosocial factors contributing to turnover intention among hospitality workers over the past decade. Turnover is a problem experienced worldwide and, if left unresolved, could seriously impact the provision of good hospitality services. This industry survives through customer service where talented workers are vital to ensure consistent quality. It is imperative to understand the reasons behind the workers’ intention to leave the organization to aid in imparting constructive and operative efforts to develop existing human capitalfor better growth. A thorough electronic database search was conducted to identify the most relevant journal articles published in various journals within the last 10 years. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flowchart was used to identify the articles for review. The factors were categorized into three different categories known as personal/emotional (individual level), work environment/social (unit level), and organizational and environment (organizational level) factors. Factors such as psychological distress, job satisfaction, and work stress were identified at the individual level; job overload, supervisor incivility, and management pressure were identified at the unit level; career advancement, organisational support, and work-family conflict were identified under organizational factors. This review has shown that push factors at all three levels contribute to turnover more than pull factors and determined prominent factors under each revised category. The industry may focus on creating new systems, policies, methods, or additional support to improve the internal factors to reduce employee turnover intention and increase retention among valuable employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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