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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Berufliche Mobilität in Deutschland
- Institutionelle und sozioökonomische Determinanten beruflicher Mobilität
- Berufliche Mobilität bei Einzelberufen/Berufsgruppen/Fachrichtungen
- Berufliche Mobilität bei besonderen Personengruppen
- Berufliche Mobilität und Qualifikation
- Berufliche Mobilität und Einkommen
- Berufliche Mobilität und Auf-/Abstiegsprozesse
- Berufliche Mobilitätsverläufe
- Berufliche Mobilität in anderen Ländern
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Literaturhinweis
Does Performance Pay Deter Job Quits? (2025)
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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)
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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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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;Zitatform
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;Zitatform
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)
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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;Zitatform
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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Heining, Jörg;Ähnliche Treffer
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes (2025)
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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)
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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)
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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; Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele ; Jahn, Daniel; Wapler, Rüdiger; Janser, Markus ; Hamann, Silke ; Otto, Anne ;Zitatform
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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Faißt, Christian; Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele ; Jahn, Daniel; Wapler, Rüdiger; Janser, Markus ; Hamann, Silke ; Otto, Anne ; -
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A Relative Measure of Economic Insecurity and the Nexus with Job Change (2025)
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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 contribution of employer changes to aggregate wage mobility (2025)
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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))
Ähnliche Treffer
frühere (möglicherweise abweichende) Version erschienen als: IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, 17259Weiterführende Informationen
Data product DOI: 10.5164/IAB.SIAB7517.de.en.v1 -
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States (2025)
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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. 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)
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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 Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020 (2025)
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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)
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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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Do all job changes increase wellbeing? (2025)
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Longhi, Simonetta, Alita Nandi, Mark Bryan, Sara Connolly & Cigdem Gedikli (2025): Do all job changes increase wellbeing? In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 64, H. 1, S. 23-39. DOI:10.1111/irel.12354
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"We provide a comprehensive framework, based on person–Environment fit, for evaluating the relationship between types of job change and wellbeing, and estimate it using fixed‐effects methods applied to UK longitudinal data. Changing job is associated with large swings in job satisfaction, but not all job changes are equal. Changes in workplace are associated with increased job satisfaction only when they are associated with a change in job role. The largest associations are for changing employers. These associations extend beyond job satisfaction to mental health and, to a lesser extent, life satisfaction. Changes in broader wellbeing are especially pronounced for women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions (2025)
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Maasoumi, Esfandiar, Le Wang & Daiqiang Zhang (2025): Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions. In: Sociological methods & research, S. 1-30. DOI:10.1177/00491241251357586
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"Current research on intergenerational mobility (IGM) is informed by statistical approaches based on log-level regressions, whose economic interpretations remain largely unknown. We reveal the subjective value-judgments in them: they are represented by weighted-sums (or aggregators) over heterogeneous groups, with controversial economic properties. Log-level regressions tend to overrepresent the experiences of middle-class children while underrepresenting those from disadvantaged families. We propose a general construction of IGM measures that can incorporate any transparent economic preferences. They are interpreted as the marginal effect of parental normalized social welfare on children’s normalized welfare. Conventional regressions are special cases with implicit economic preferences that fail inequality-aversion and the Pigou–Dalton principle of transfers. Empirically, a variety of economic preferences, with varying inequality aversion, demonstrate a nuanced view of mobility, and perspectives on geographic-differences and dynamics of it." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes (2025)
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Mitnik, Pablo A. (2025): Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes. In: Sociological methods & research, S. 1-50. DOI:10.1177/00491241251352102
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"Although there is an extensive methodological literature on the measurement of intergenerational income mobility, there has been limited research on the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures and the methodological implications of those interpretations. In this article, I focus on the three measures of mobility most frequently used in the literature—the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), the intergenerational correlation (IGC), and the rank-rank slope (RRS)—as well as a recently introduced measure, the intergenerational elasticity of expected income (IGEE). I make two main contributions, both related to the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures. First, I specify the formal relationships between those four mobility measures and the measures of inequality of opportunity developed in the luck egalitarian empirical literature on the topic, and determine the methodological implications of the analyses. I show that (a) the IGC is a measure of relative inequality of opportunity for monetary income, (b) the RRS is both a measure of relative inequality of opportunity for income rank and a rescaled measure of absolute inequality of opportunity for income rank, and (c) the products of parental income inequality by the IGEE and IGE are both measures of absolute inequality of opportunity for monetary income that differ in how they measure the value of opportunity sets. Second, relying on a conceptual distinction that has been influential in the field of public finance, the IGE and IGEE have been characterized as “person-weighted” and “dollar-weighted” elasticities, respectively, thus raising doubts about the desirability of a recent proposal to replace the IGE by the IGEE as the workhorse elasticity of the mobility field. I show that this contrasting characterization of the two intergenerational elasticities is the joint result of a category mistake—equating quantile-specific elasticities to person-specific elasticities—and of misconstruing the nature of the IGE and the epistemic goal it has been meant to serve. Based on this analysis, I conclude that the case for replacing the IGE with the IGEE remains well-founded." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Long-Run Career Outcomes of Multiple Job Holding (2025)
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Muffert, Johanna & Regina T. Riphahn (2025): Long-Run Career Outcomes of Multiple Job Holding. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17605), Bonn, 57 S.
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"Multiple job holding (MJH) is increasingly frequent in industrialized countries. Individuals holding a secondary job add to their experience, skills, and networks. We study the long-run labor market outcomes after MJH and investigate whether career effects can be validated. We employ high-quality administrative data from Germany. Our doubly robust estimation method combines entropy balancing with fixed effects difference-in-differences regressions. We find that income from primary employment declines after MJH spells and overall annual earnings from all jobs increase briefly. Job mobility increases after MJH spells. Interestingly, the beneficial long-term effects of MJH are largest for disadvantaged groups in the labor market such as females, those with low earnings, and low education. Overall, we find only limited benefits of MJH." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Performance evaluations and employee turnover intentions: Empirical evidence from linked employer-employee data (2025)
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Pohlan, Laura & Susanne Steffes (2025): Performance evaluations and employee turnover intentions: Empirical evidence from linked employer-employee data. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 64, H. 3, S. 395-433., 2024-09-03. DOI:10.1111/irel.12379
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"In this article, we study whether performance evaluations can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee retention. Feedback on one's own performance may affect individual turnover intentions differently depending on the relative wage rank of workers among their peers. In line with these considerations, empirical evidence based on panel employer–employee data shows that relatively low-paid employees decrease their turnover intentions after the implementation of a performance evaluation system at the establishment level. We find no effect for relatively high-paid employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes (2025)
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Prechsl, Sebastian (2025): Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes. In: Social science research, Jg. 127, 2024-12-13. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133
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"Numerous studies illustrate that a lack of reciprocity between effort and reward in the employer-employee relationship produces negative effects on employees' health and well-being. This might motivate employees to change jobs as a consequence. Based on German panel data with 16,243 observations from 4,641 employees, I analyze the effect of effort-reward imbalance (ERI) on turnover intentions and actual job changes and whether health-threatening ERI exposure affects the realization of job changes. The results indicate more frequent doctor visits, lower job satisfaction, higher turnover intentions, and higher job change probabilities when employees’ efforts in relation to rewards increase. The ERI effects on turnover intentions and job changes are both mediated through job satisfaction. Finally, I find no evidence that ERI exposure moderates the relationship between turnover intentions and actual job changes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc.) ((en))
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Anstrengung ohne angemessene Gegenleistung verdoppelt die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Jobwechsels (2025)
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Prechsl, Sebastian (2025): Anstrengung ohne angemessene Gegenleistung verdoppelt die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Jobwechsels. In: IAB-Forum H. 22.07.2025, 2025-07-22. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250722.01
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"„Ich rackere mich hier ab, ohne dass es mir gedankt wird“ – so oder ähnlich empfindet es derzeit nahezu die Hälfte der Beschäftigten. Dass dies handfeste Folgen für die Betriebe haben kann, zeigt eine IAB-Studie auf Basis des Panels „Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung“. Denn die Wahrscheinlichkeit für einen Jobwechsel verdoppelt sich, wenn Arbeitgeber die Anstrengungen ihrer Beschäftigten aus deren Sicht nur unzureichend honorieren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Mobility after job loss in Germany: the effects of regional economic opportunities and economic worries on mobility intentions and behaviour (2025)
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Rickmeier, Katrin (2025): Mobility after job loss in Germany: the effects of regional economic opportunities and economic worries on mobility intentions and behaviour. In: Review of regional research, Jg. 45, H. 2, S. 271-297. DOI:10.1007/s10037-025-00232-4
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"This study examines the impact of local economic opportunity structures on mobility intentions and mobility behavior subsequent to involuntary job loss in Germany. Previous research has demonstrated that job loss leads to an increased propensity for regional mobility; however, the role of the regional economy as a push factor and its influence on the decision to relocate remains unclear. The focus of the study at hand is on the opportunities provided by locational factors and an examination of the broader context in which regional mobility after job loss occurs. Logistic regression models are set up using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study, which is complemented by a unique combination of spatial structure indicators. The results demonstrate that job loss has no effect on the mobility intentions of displaced workers. However, it increases the propensity to relocate within Germany. Furthermore, a favorable economic situation in the home region makes mobility intentions of displaced workers less likely. This is indicated by a negative effect of the local GDP and a positive effect of the occupation-specific local unemployment rate. A mediation analysis does not confirm a hypothesized omitted variable bias of economic worries in the effect of regional economic characteristics on the mobility intentions of displaced workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeitnehmer kündigen zunehmend selbst (2025)
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Schäfer, Holger (2025): Arbeitnehmer kündigen zunehmend selbst. (IW-Kurzberichte / Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2025,37), Köln, 3 S.
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"Trotz Krise und Arbeitsplatzabbau gibt es derzeit kaum mehr Arbeitgeberkündigungen als in den Vorjahren. Wird ein Beschäftigungsverhältnis vorzeitig beendet, so erfolgt dies mittlerweile überwiegend durch den Arbeitnehmer selbst – ein Indiz für dessen zunehmende Verhandlungsmacht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Is no (soft) skill left behind? Do soft skills enable job mobility (2025)
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Semtner, Aaron, Janet Dzator & Andrew Nadolny (2025): Is no (soft) skill left behind? Do soft skills enable job mobility. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 57, H. 33, S. 4897-4915. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2024.2364103
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"High job mobility or labor turnover is historically treated as detrimental for businesses and workers. With new technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) that further increase soft skill demand, there is an opportunity for beneficial job mobility of workers reallocating to productive businesses supported by transferable soft skills. However, Australian businesses risk missing these benefits as Australian workers have yet to reach pre-GFC mobility. We use the HILDA longitudinal dataset for Australia to test how the soft skill measures of communication skills, time management, and low task repetitiveness are associated with mobility for Australian workers measured using changing jobs directly and hourly wages as a measure of mobility success. The survival analysis for changing jobs finds soft skills have no significant effect on the expected employment duration prior to changing jobs, while measures of overall skills beyond soft skills increase this duration. Further, measures of soft skills and overall skills have mixed effects on wages by themselves, and when moderated with changing jobs these terms are almost completely insignificant. Overall, the potential transferability of soft skills does not translate into practical mobility, suggesting limitations for workers seeking to improve their working conditions via changing jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale (2025)
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Singh, Amit (2025): University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale. In: Sociology, Jg. 59, H. 3, S. 424-441. DOI:10.1177/00380385241289297
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"This article examines the way in which working-class young people in Rochdale, a former industrial town in the north-west of England, imagine their future transitions from college to work through qualitative research at Rochdale’s only A-Level college. It explores how students’ aspirations to attend university reflect their desire for a ‘career’ in the absence of alternative forms of work and as a symbolic marker of upward social mobility that is subsequently differentiated from other forms of work as a form of distinction, as a great deal of emphasis is placed on the moral and cultural worth of a ‘career’. In doing so, this article highlights how such perceptions are shaped by the material conditions faced by these young people, such as inequality, financial precarity, and relative poverty against the backdrop of deindustrialisation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Navigating sustainable careers: A conceptual framework on person-career fit dynamics (2025)
Talluri, Surendra Babu ; Heijden, Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria van der; Baruch, Yehuda ; Donald, William E. ;Zitatform
Talluri, Surendra Babu, Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria van der Heijden, Yehuda Baruch & William E. Donald (2025): Navigating sustainable careers: A conceptual framework on person-career fit dynamics. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 162. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104157
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"Sustainable careers have become a central focus in careers research. However, the mechanisms linking influential factors enacted by key stakeholders and sustainable career outcomes remain insufficiently theorized. Building on the process model of sustainable careers, person-environment-fit theory, and sustainable career ecosystem theory, our conceptual framework positions subjective person-career (P−C) fit as the central link explaining how individuals navigate and adapt their careers over time and across social contexts. Specifically, we emphasize how dynamic compatibility between personal factors and career environment elements shapes subjective P−C fit, further impacting sustainable career outcomes (i.e., happiness, health, and productivity). Additionally, we elaborate on the role of dynamic feedback loops, coping and defense mechanisms, self-directed career orientations, and a balance of proximal and distal outcome perspectives in the relationship between subjective P−C fit and sustainable career outcomes. In doing so, we introduce a key mechanism to connect career actors and outcomes in the sustainable career ecosystem model, highlighting the importance of integrating individual agency, contextual influences, and evolving career meaning for the individual into a single framework. Our conceptual framework is accompanied by a set of propositions to guide future empirical investigations in sustainable careers and person-career fit research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Published by Elsevier Inc.) ((en))
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Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France (2025)
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Veljkovic, Marta (2025): Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France. In: European Sociological Review. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcaf012
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"Recent empirical research has shown a modest increase in career complexity throughout 20th century Europe. Little is known, however, about the career class mobility, despite the fact that social class is recognized as one of the main career boundaries. Modernization theory provides conflicting expectations regarding how social mobility should evolve over the life course as contemporary societies converge towards education-based meritocracies. Drawing on the French survey Formation-Qualification Professionnelle (Insee, 1970; 1977; 1985; 1993; 2003; 2014–2015) and using the EGP schema, I analyse both the absolute and relative measures of career class mobility, and I rely on the latter to define career class regimes, that I qualify in terms of the strength of the association between class positions held at different career stages and its structure (i.e., qualitative patterns). The findings of this article point to increasing career fluidity across cohorts, which implies a greater permeability of class barriers to career mobility. They also show, however, that these changes have not been associated with any significant modification in mobility patterns, meaning that the social distance and proximity of different social classes remain largely intact over time. Overall, the transformation in contemporary life courses and careers was not only slight but also partial when it comes to career class regimes in France: there is a changing flux, but persisting barriers to career mobility. Therefore, it seems not only exaggerated, but also misleading to speculate on a fundamental change in career dynamics, as most variants of modernization theory tend to do." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Ende zweier Ungleichheiten? Die Aufstiegschancen von Ostdeutschen und die Notwendigkeit zur Unterscheidung von Eliten- und Führungspositionen (2025)
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Vogel, Lars (2025): Ende zweier Ungleichheiten? Die Aufstiegschancen von Ostdeutschen und die Notwendigkeit zur Unterscheidung von Eliten- und Führungspositionen. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 54, H. 2, S. 224-237. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2014
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"Der Beitrag vergleicht die Aufstiegschancen von Ostdeutschen in Führungs- und Elitenpositionen. Ausgangspunkt sind die geringeren Aufstiegschancen Ostdeutscher in Führungspositionen, die sich aber in jüngeren Geburtskohorten an die der Westdeutschen angleichen. Theoretisch-konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum Unterschied von Führungs- und Elitenpositionen sowie empirische Ergebnisse auf Basis des SOEP und des Forschungsprojekts Elitenmonitor zeigen, dass dieser Befund nicht auf die Aufstiegschancen in die deutschen Eliten übertragbar ist. Zudem können die angeglichenen Aufstiegschancen in jüngeren Geburtskohorten neben einem Kohorteneffekt auch durch einen Lebenszykluseffekt erzeugt werden, weil mit fortschreitender Karrieredauer die Hierarchieebene der eingenommenen Positionen steigt. Die persistierende Unterrepräsentation der Ostdeutschen in Elitenpositionen ist daher nicht allein auf den Personaltransfer ab 1990 zurückzuführen und wird nicht durch Generationswechsel automatisch vergehen, sondern erfordert gesellschaftspolitische Gegenmaßnahmen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)
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Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis (2025)
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Wagner, Ines, Karen Jaehrling, Aurora Trif, Devi Sacchetto & Jan Czarzasty (2025): Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis. In: Transfer, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 41-54. DOI:10.1177/10242589251322885
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"This article investigates how cross-border mobility in the European shipbuilding industry affected the employment security of workers on standard and non-standard contracts in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on qualitative findings from Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Romania, where shipbuilding production is integrated into transnational networks, leading to high cross-border mobility. Despite restrictions and a reduction of shipbuilding activities, the east-west labour mobility continued during the pandemic contributing to employment security in the east and addressing labour shortages in the west. The findings show that the type of employment contract, national employment protections and workers’ mobility status (e.g. posted or self-initiated) influence workers’ vulnerability. Specifically, the mobile workers with the most secure employment were also better protected by government measures than those in less secure employment during the pandemic, resulting in hierarchised groups of cross-border labour. Workers engaging in circular migration across Europe were the least protected." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Local Unemployment, Worker Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Germany (2025)
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Weber, Johannes (2025): Local Unemployment, Worker Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Germany. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 662), Bonn, 50 S.
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"In most countries, there are large and highly persistent differences in unemployment rates across local labor markets. Such local unemployment rate differences can shape the career outcomes of young who start their careers in different local labor markets. I use high-quality administrative data from Germany to study how workers move between labor markets with different unemployment rates and their resulting lifecycle wage profiles. I find that on average workers who start their careers in lower unemployment regions earn higher wages even when young, experience greater wage growth along the lifecycle, and spend less time in unemployment. Even conditional on local price levels and worker fixed effects, I find that between workers from high and workers from low unemployment regions, an unexplained wage gap opens up to about 11% until the age of 40. Despite this, I do not find that workers move out of bad labor markets and into good labor markets. Instead, workers spend most of their time in local labor markets with similar relative degrees of unemployment. I find that the differences in wages and unemployment translate into a gap of about 150,000 Euros (adjusted to 2010 level) in real income accumulated until the age of 55." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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IAB-LinkedIn-Branchenwechsel-Radar: Wechseldynamik auf dem Tiefpunkt (2025)
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Weber, Enzo (2025): IAB-LinkedIn-Branchenwechsel-Radar: Wechseldynamik auf dem Tiefpunkt. In: IAB-Forum – Grafik aktuell H. 30.05.2025, 2025-05-26. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.GA.20250530.01
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"Trotz des Transformationsdrucks herrschte bei Job- und Branchenwechseln Flaute auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Das aktuelle IAB-LinkedIn-Branchenwechsel-Radar befindet sich auf dem Tiefpunkt, deutet aber eine Trendwende an." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany's Employment Structure, 1993–2019 (2025)
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Westenberger, Gina-Julia (2025): Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany's Employment Structure, 1993–2019. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 77, H. 1, S. 75-100. DOI:10.1007/s11577-025-00992-4
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"In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird die populäre These einer zunehmenden regionalen Ungleichheit und eines Stadt-Land-Gefälles für Deutschland einer kritischen Betrachtung unterzogen. Der Fokus unserer Analyse liegt dabei auf der Qualität der Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer 2 %-Stichprobe von Personen (SIAB), die von 1993 bis 2019 im deutschenSozialversicherungssystem registriert waren. Anhand dieser Daten werden das Niveau und die Entwicklung der Beschäftigungschancen entlang dreier etablierter geografischer Trennlinien – Stadt-Land, Ost-West und Nord-Süd – auf der kleinräumigen Ebene von 330 Kreisregionen analysiert. Die Berufsgruppen werden nach ihrem Medianlohn Quintilen zugeordnet, um festzustellen, ob verschiedene Kreise unterschiedliche Veränderungen in ihrer Berufsstruktur erfahren haben. Unsere Ergebnisse bestätigen ein deutliches Stadt-Land-Gefälle bei der Qualität der Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten, da städtische Kreise einen deutlich stärkeren Zuwachs an gutbezahlten Arbeitsplätzen verzeichnen konnten. Die auf der aggregierten deutschen Ebene beobachteten Unterschiede werden jedoch auch durch das Nord-Süd- und Ost-West-Gefälle beeinflusst, da diese geografischen Polarisierungslinien sich teilweise überschneiden. Während einige kleinere Städte und städtische Kreise, vor allem in Süddeutschland, einen überdurchschnittlichen Anstieg an gutbezahlten Arbeitsplätzen verzeichnen konnten, haben die meisten ländlichen und städtischen Kreise im Osten und viele im Nordwesten weiterhin Schwierigkeiten, mit nationalen Trends mitzuhalten. Damit zeigt diese Studie, dass die geografische Polarisierung in Deutschland über ein einfaches Stadt-Land-Gefälle hinausgeht. Zudem stellt sie die Qualität von Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten als langfristigen und räumlich detaillierten Indikator für die Analyse geografischer Unterschiede vor. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht die Erfassung eines greifbaren Aspekts regional divergierender Lebenschancen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs (2025)
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Wotschack, Philip & Claire Samtleben (2025): Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 39, H. 2, S. 496-515. DOI:10.1177/09500170241275861
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"How the upward mobility chances of workers in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs are shaped by influences at the organizational and sectoral level remains an open question. This article aims to close this research gap by examining the role of internal labor market characteristics in the promotion prospects and wage increases of workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions. The hypotheses are derived from dual and segmented labor market theory. Regression analyses based on linked-employer-employee-data (LIAB), covering 44,024 workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions from 2005 to 2010, underline the importance of the internal labor market. A considerable share of workers moved to skilled positions through company change. For the workers who stayed with the company, career advancements were associated with regular training investments and formalised regulations at the company level. Collective agreements, in contrast, were associated with lower chances of upward mobility, but higher wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Das QuBe-Projekt: Modelle, Module, Methoden: Aktualisierung 2025 (2025)
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Zika, Gerd, Markus Hummel, Tobias Maier & Marc Ingo Wolter (Hrsg.) (2025): Das QuBe-Projekt: Modelle, Module, Methoden. Aktualisierung 2025. (IAB-Bibliothek 375), Bielefeld: wbv, 228 S. DOI:10.3278/9783763978861
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"Seit 2007 wird im Projekt „Qualifikations- und Berufsprojektionen“ (QuBe) über die zukünftige Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarkts und deren Folgen geforscht. Der Reader stellt die Annahmen, Daten und die Basis der Projektionen vor, die im Projekt QuBe genutzt werden. Projektionen über die Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarkts ergeben sich aus der Beobachtung von Vergangenen und dem, was gegenwärtig als richtungsweisend gilt. Die theoretischen und empirischen Grundlagen sind wichtig, um Projektionen als reine Rechenmodelle richtig zu verstehen und angemessen zu interpretieren. Seit 2021 werden die langfristigen, im zweijährigen Rhythmus erscheinenden QuBe-Projektionen um eine jährliche Mittelfristprognose ergänzt. Federführend sind das Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) und das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) unter Mitwirkung der Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung mbH (GWS)." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Berufswechsel: Risiko und Chance für Beschäftigte inmitten des Strukturwandels. Ergebnisse zweier SOFI-Forschungsprojekte. | SOFI (2025)
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(2025): Berufswechsel: Risiko und Chance für Beschäftigte inmitten des Strukturwandels. Ergebnisse zweier SOFI-Forschungsprojekte. | SOFI. (SOFI-Impulspapier), Göttingen, 4 S.
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Der alte Sinnspruch „Schuster, bleib‘ bei deinen Leisten!“ mahnt, die erworbenen Qualifikationen und Erfahrungen nicht über Bord zu werfen und das Risiko eines neuen Berufsfeldes zu meiden. Doch dieser Spruch hat heute für viele seine Gültigkeit verloren. Sie können oder wollen im Zuge des Älterwerdens nicht länger in ihrem ursprünglich erlernten bzw. viele Jahre lang ausgeübten Beruf arbeiten. Obwohl der Beruf immer auch ein Teil der eigenen Identität ist, finden manche neue berufliche Wege spannender oder in materieller Weise vorteilhaft. Andere werden durch äußere Faktoren zum Verlassen eines traditionellen Berufs ohne Zukunft gedrängt. Warum sollte etwa ein Schuster somit nicht seinen Beruf „an den Nagel hängen“ und Physiotherapeut werden?
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Is there a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities to enter leadership positions? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment with over 12,000 job applications (2024)
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Adamovic, Mladen & Andreas Leibbrandt (2024): Is there a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities to enter leadership positions? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment with over 12,000 job applications. (Discussion paper / Monash University, Department of Economics 2024-06), Clayton, 49 S.
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"Ethnic inequalities are pervasive in the higher echelons of organizations. We conducted a field experiment to analyze if there is a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities entering leadership positions. We submitted over 12,000 job applications, to over 4,000 job advertisements, to investigate hiring discrimination against six ethnic groups for leadership positions. Drawing on implicit leadership theory, we argue that ethnic discrimination is particularly pronounced in the recruitment of leadership positions. Our findings confirm this hypothesis. We find that discrimination increases for leadership positions. Resumes with non-English names receive 57.4% fewer positive responses for leadership positions than identical resumes with English names. For non-leadership positions, ethnic minorities receive 45.3 percent fewer positive responses. Ethnic discrimination for leadership positions is even more pronounced when the advertised job requires customer contact. In contrast, ethnic discrimination in leadership positions is not significantly influenced by whether the organization’s job advertisement emphasizes individualism or learning, creativity, and innovation. These findings provide novel evidence of a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities to enter leadership positions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Die ökologische Transformation des Arbeitsmarktes: Individuelle Betroffenheit und Erwartungen (2024)
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Bachmann, Ronald, Jana Eßer, Mirjam Fitzthum & Christina Vonnahme (2024): Die ökologische Transformation des Arbeitsmarktes: Individuelle Betroffenheit und Erwartungen. (RWI-Materialien 170), Essen, 23 S.
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"Die ökologische Transformation der Wirtschaft hat Folgen für Beschäftigte und Arbeitgeber/innen. Berufsbilder und Arbeitsnachfrage verändern sich bereits, und diese Entwicklungen werden sich zukünftig wahrscheinlich noch verstärken. Die vorliegende Studie präsentiert Ergebnisse einer Personenbefragung zu mehreren Aspekten dieses Themenfeldes. Hierbei stehen die Einstellungen und Sorgen der erwerbstätigen Bevölkerung im Hinblick auf die ökologische Transformation des Arbeitsmarkts im Fokus. Die Ergebnisse sollen u. a. dazu beitragen, Informationsbedürfnisse in Bezug auf den Transformationsprozess aufzudecken, um Wohlfahrtsverluste zu vermeiden. Hierbei zeigt sich erstens, dass Umweltschutz und Klimawandel als bedeutende Herausforderungen angesehen werden. Zweitens spielt die ökologische Transformation bisher nur eine geringe Rolle für berufliche Veränderungen. Für die Zukunft wird ein Anstieg solcher Veränderungen aufgrund der ökologischen Transformation sowie die Notwendigkeit, die eigenen Fähigkeiten zu erweitern, erwartet. Hierbei wünschen sich die Befragten mehr Unterstützung durch Staat und Arbeitgeber/innen und eine Beschleunigung des ökologischen Umbaus der Wirtschaft. Dieser wird als gut vereinbar mit weiteren gesellschaftlichen Zielen bewertet. Analysen getrennt nach Alter, Bildung und Einkommen verdeutlichen die soziale Dimension der ökologischen Transformation des Arbeitsmarktes." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows (2024)
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Bachmann, Ronald, Markus Janser, Florian Lehmer & Christina Vonnahme (2024): Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows. (Ruhr economic papers 1099), Essen, 53 S. DOI:10.4419/96973277
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"In diesem Papier untersuchen wir die Entwicklung der ökologischen Transformation auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt zwischen 2012 und 2022. Wir zeigen zunächst, dass dieses sowohl durch eine Zunahme umwelt- bzw. klimaschutzbezogener beruflicher Tätigkeiten als auch durch einen Rückgang von umwelt-/klimaschädlichen Tätigkeiten erfolgt. Darüber hinaus ist diese Veränderung innerhalb von Berufen im Laufe der Zeit („Within-Effekt“) mindestens ebenso wichtig für die Gesamttransformation der Beschäftigung wie die Verschiebung von Beschäftigungsanteilen zwischen Berufen („Between-Effekt“). Zweitens zeigen wir, welche Berufe und welche Aufgabentypen ("brown" oder "green") am meisten zum Within-Effekt beitragen und welche Beschäftigtenflüsse hauptsächlich für den Between-Effekt verantwortlich sind. Drittens untersuchen wir die Folgen der ökologischen Transformation der Beschäftigung auf individueller Ebene. Wir stellen fest, dass die Beschäftigungsaussichten von Menschen mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit und gering qualifizierten Beschäftigten am stärksten durch die ökologische Transformation gefährdet sind, was wiederum bestehende Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verstärken kann." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Returns to labour mobility (2024)
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Baley, Isaac, Lars Ljungqvist & Thomas J. Sargent (2024): Returns to labour mobility. In: The Economic Journal, Jg. 135, H. 666, S. 430-454. DOI:10.1093/ej/ueae054
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"Returns to labor mobility have too often escaped the attention they deserve as conduits of important forces in macro-labour models. These returns are shaped by calibrations of productivity processes that use theoretical perspectives and data sources from (i) labour economics and (ii) industrial organization. By investigating earlier prominent studies, we conclude that the focus on firm size dynamics and shocks intermediated through neo-classical production functions in (ii) yields large returns to labor mobility that are robust to parameter perturbations. In contrast, the reliance on statistics in labor economics to calibrate per-worker productivity processes in (i) can give rise to fragilities in the sense that parameter perturbations that generate similar targeted statistics can have very different implications for returns to labor mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job Mobility and Assortative Matching (2024)
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Braunschweig, Luisa, Wolfgang Dauth & Duncan Roth (2024): Job Mobility and Assortative Matching. (IAB-Discussion Paper 11/2024), Nürnberg, 52 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2411
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"Wir analysieren, wie sich das Matching zwischen Betrieben und Beschäftigten über das Erwerbsleben durch Jobmobilität verändert. Wir nutzen deutsche administrative Daten, die sowohl Informationen über Beschäftigte als auch Betriebe enthalten. Um assortatives Matching zu messen, berechnen wir die Korrelation zwischen zeitkonstanten Lohnkomponenten von Betrieben und Beschäftigten, welche wir aus einer Lohndekomposition im Stil von Abowd/Kramarz/Margolis (1999) ziehen. Zudem benutzen wir ein neues Maß für assortatives Matching, welches auf der Distanz zwischen diesen Lohnkomponenten basiert. Beide Maße zeigen, dass der Grad des assortativen Matchings im Durchschnitt mit jedem weiteren Betriebswechsel ansteigt. Bei Beschäftigten mit einer hohen zeitkonstanten Lohnkomponente kann dies durch Job Ladder Modelle erklärt werden, denn die Beschäftigten bewegen sich zu Firmen mit höheren Lohnkomponenten. Dahingegen sind Beschäftigte mit niedrigerer Lohnkomponente am Anfang des Erwerbslebens in weniger assortativen Matches zu finden, da sie es ebenfalls schaffen, zu Beginn die Job Ladder hinaufzuklettern. Für sie beginnt der Anstieg des assortativen Matchings erst nach dem dritten Job, wenn sie von der Job Ladder fallen. Die Entwicklung des assortativen Matchings ist zudem relevant für die Lohnungleichheit im Lebensverlauf. Wir zeigen, dass der Anstieg des assortativen Matchings circa 25 Prozent des Anstiegs der Lohnungleichheit im Lebensverlauf erklären kann." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Job Mobility and Assortative Matching (2024)
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Braunschweig, Luisa, Wolfgang Dauth & Duncan Roth (2024): Job Mobility and Assortative Matching. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17207), Bonn, 41 S.
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"Wir analysieren, wie sich das Matching zwischen Betrieben und Beschäftigten über das Erwerbsleben durch Jobmobilität verändert. Wir nutzen deutsche administrative Daten, die sowohl Informationen über Beschäftigte als auch Betriebe enthalten. Um assortatives Matching zu messen, berechnen wir die Korrelation zwischen zeitkonstanten Lohnkomponenten von Betrieben und Beschäftigten, welche wir aus einer Lohndekomposition im Stil von Abowd/Kramarz/Margolis (1999) ziehen. Zudem benutzen wir ein neues Maß für assortatives Matching, welches auf der Distanz zwischen diesen Lohnkomponenten basiert. Beide Maße zeigen, dass der Grad des assortativen Matchings im Durchschnitt mit jedem weiteren Betriebswechsel ansteigt. Bei Beschäftigten mit einer hohen zeitkonstanten Lohnkomponente kann dies durch Job Ladder Modelle erklärt werden, denn die Beschäftigten bewegen sich zu Firmen mit höheren Lohnkomponenten. Dahingegen sind Beschäftigte mit niedrigerer Lohnkomponente am Anfang des Erwerbslebens in weniger assortativen Matches zu finden, da sie es ebenfalls schaffen, zu Beginn die Job Ladder hinaufzuklettern. Für sie beginnt der Anstieg des assortativen Matchings erst nach dem dritten Job, wenn sie von der Job Ladder fallen. Die Entwicklung des assortativen Matchings ist zudem relevant für die Lohnungleichheit im Lebensverlauf. Wir zeigen, dass der Anstieg des assortativen Matchings circa 25 Prozent des Anstiegs der Lohnungleichheit im Lebensverlauf erklären kann." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Spatial and Occupational Mobility of Workers Due to Automation (2024)
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Burzyński, Michał (2024): Spatial and Occupational Mobility of Workers Due to Automation. (LISER working papers), Esch-sur-Alzette, 52 S.
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"Automation of labor tasks is one of the most dynamic aspects of recent technological progress. This paper aims at improving our understanding of the way that automation affects labor markets, analyzing the example of European countries. The quantitative theoretical methodology proposed in this paper allows to focus on automation-induced migration of workers, occupation switching and income inequality. The key findings include that automation in the first two decades of the 21st century had a significant impact on job upgrading of native workers and generated gains in many local labor markets. Even though net migration of workers was attenuated due to convergence in incomes across European regions, mobility at occupation levels had a sizeable impact on transmitting welfare effects of automation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Spatial and Occupational Mobility of Workers Due to Automation (2024)
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Burzyński, Michał (2024): Spatial and Occupational Mobility of Workers Due to Automation. (LISER working papers 2024-04), Esch-sur-Alzette, 52 S.
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"Automation of labor tasks is one of the most dynamic aspects of recent technological progress. This paper aims at improving our understanding of the way that automation affects labor markets, analyzing the example of European countries. The quantitative theoretical methodology proposed in this paper allows to focus on automation-induced migration of workers, occupation switching and income inequality. The key findings include that automation in the first two decades of the 21st century had a significant impact on job upgrading of native workers and generated gains in many local labor markets. Even though net migration of workers was attenuated due to convergence in incomes across European regions, mobility at occupation levels had a sizeable impact on transmitting welfare effects of automation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does Bridge Employment Mitigate or Exacerbate Inequalities Later in Life? (2024)
Cahill, Kevin E.; Giandrea, Michael D.; Quinn, Joseph F. ; Platts, Loretta G. ; Sacco, Lawrence B. ;Zitatform
Cahill, Kevin E., Michael D. Giandrea, Joseph F. Quinn, Lawrence B. Sacco & Loretta G. Platts (2024): Does Bridge Employment Mitigate or Exacerbate Inequalities Later in Life? In: Work, Aging and Retirement, Jg. 10, H. 2, S. 77-99. DOI:10.1093/workar/waac020
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"Most older Americans with career employment change jobs at least once before retiring from the labor market. Much is known about the prevalence and determinants of these bridge jobs, yet relatively little is known about the implications of such job changes—compared to direct exits from a career job —upon economic disparities in later life. In this article, we use 26 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to document the various pathways that older Americans take when exiting the labor force, and examine how bridge employment affects nonhousing wealth and total wealth, including the present discounted value of Social Security benefits. We find that gradual retirement in the form of bridge employment neither exacerbates nor mitigates wealth inequalities among Americans who hold career jobs later in life. That said, we do find some evidence that wealth inequalities grow among the subset of older career workers who transition from career employment to bridge employment at older ages. One policy implication of our article is that it provides evidence that might allay concerns about the potential for disparate financial impacts associated with the gradual retirement process." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Outside Options in the Labour Market (2024)
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Caldwell, Sydnee & Oren Danieli (2024): Outside Options in the Labour Market. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 91, H. 6, S. 3286-3315. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdae006
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"This paper develops a method to estimate workers’ outside employment opportunities. We outline a matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, from which we derive a sufficient statistic, the “outside options index” (OOI), for the effect of outside options on earnings, holding worker productivity constant. The OOI uses the cross-sectional concentration of similar workers across job types to quantify workers’ outside options as a function of workers’ commuting costs, preferences, and skills. Using German micro-data, we find that differences in options explain 20% of the gender earnings gap, and that gender gaps in options are mostly due to differences in the implicit costs of commuting and moving." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do temporary help agencies help? Employment transitions for low-skilled workers (2024)
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Carrasco, Raquel, Ismael Gálvez-Iniesta & Belén Jerez (2024): Do temporary help agencies help? Employment transitions for low-skilled workers. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 90. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102586
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"We investigate the impact of working for a temporary help agency (THA) compared to being directly hired on the employment transitions of low-skilled male temporary workers aged 20 to 45. Using data from Spanish administrative records, we employ competing risk discrete-time duration models to analyze multiple temporary employment spells. Our analysis reveals the importance of accounting for short-duration dependence and workers’ unobserved heterogeneity. We find that, across all durations, agency workers are more likely to transition either to unemployment or to a new THA contract than their direct-hire counterparts. Transitions to permanent positions, although infrequent in our sample, are also more likely for agency workers. Our qualitative findings hold when unobserved heterogeneity is not controlled for. However, this model underestimates the effect of agency contracts on the risk of entering unemployment and overestimates the impact on the probability of re-entering THA. This suggests that positive self-selection plays a relevant role in explaining the higher persistence of THA employment, but not the associated higher risk of unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Glass Ceilings, Step Stools, and Sticky Floors: The Racialized Gendered Promotion Process (2024)
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Corbett, Christianne, Katherine E. Wullert, Shannon K. Gilmartin & Caroline Simard (2024): Glass Ceilings, Step Stools, and Sticky Floors: The Racialized Gendered Promotion Process. In: Socius, Jg. 10. DOI:10.1177/23780231241274238
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"Organizations play a central role in replicating societal inequalities. Despite theories of gendered and racialized organizations, evidence of unequal outcomes, and research on proposed mechanisms, we have few intersectional analyses demonstrating how the promotion process varies by race and gender across job levels in actual organizations. In this first-ever analysis of advancement in a U.S. firm by gender, race, and job, we run random effects logistic regression models on five years of novel longitudinal data from the software engineering workforce of a U.S.-based technology company. Results show intersectional performance-reward bias in patterns that help maintain the racialized gendered hierarchy so commonly observed in organizations: White men overrepresented at the top, women of color overrepresented at the bottom, and in the technology sector, men of Asian descent overrepresented in midlevel technical jobs and White women overrepresented in midlevel management positions. Findings suggest monitoring promotions by gender, race, and position to make visible biases that continue to impede workplace equity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment (2024)
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Créchet, Jonathan, Etienne Lalé & Linas Tarasonis (2024): Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16878), Bonn, 71 S.
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"Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model capturing the salient features of our data. Key elements of the model are an extensive margin (i.e., labor force participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production technology in driving differences in aggregate employment, while labor-market policies play a minor role. Search effort substantially amplifies the effects of technology across gender and age groups and is a prominent proximate cause of the cross-country variation in aggregate employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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