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
Driver factors of job hopping among corporate employees: A systematic literature review (2025)
Apriliani, Arimbi; Kadiyono, Anissa Lestari; Fitriana, Efi; Sulastiana, Marina;Zitatform
Apriliani, Arimbi, Anissa Lestari Kadiyono, Efi Fitriana & Marina Sulastiana (2025): Driver factors of job hopping among corporate employees: A systematic literature review. In: Acta Psychologica, Jg. 260. DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105658
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"Job hopping has emerged as a global phenomenon with significant implications for organizational stability and workforce dynamics. Although driver factors of job hopping have been identified in prior research, the literature remains fragmented. This systematic review integrates driver factors of job hopping into three categories, sociodemographic, personal, and organizational factors, while also highlighting research gaps and practical implications. Following PRISMA guidelines, five databases (Scopus, ScienceDirect, SAGE, Emerald, and Springer) were searched for empirical studies published between 2014 and 2024. A total of 17 studies met the inclusion criteria. The review identifies key drivers: sociodemographic factors, personal factors and organizational factors. Most studies were conducted in Asia, limiting cross-cultural generalizability. These gaps underscore the need for multi-context, theory-driven research. The review provides actionable insights for HR practitioners, emphasising structured career development, competitive rewards, and supportive leadership aligned with generational expectations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to integrate the driver factors of job hopping into a comprehensive framework, thereby advancing research in industrial–organizational psychology and informing organizational retention strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Beyond Human Capital: Mobility intentions, IT skills, and the Early Gender Wage Gap (2025)
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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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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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Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life (2025)
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Charruau, Paul & Anne Epaulard (2025): Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life. In: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Jg. 115. DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104162
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"What determines the chances of moving up or down to better or worse jobs? We examine how local labor markets influence individuals’ socio-professional mobility throughout their working lives, focusing on large promotions and demotions. Using an empirical strategy that accounts for spatial sorting bias, applied to a sample of approximately 350,000 workers in France between 2009 and 2015, we find that job density, local human capital, and labor market size significantly increase the likelihood of being promoted to a higher socio-professional status. The effect of local factors is stronger for external promotions (outside the firm) than for internal ones. Moreover, experience accumulated in the most densely populated and educated areas continues to enhance promotion prospects, even after relocating to less dense or educated areas. This dynamic effect of promotion explains around 16% of the wage premium associated with experience in dense areas. Finally, we show that agglomerations effects on promotion are driven more by human capital externalities and proximity to other dense markets than by pure urbanization or scale effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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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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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe (2025)
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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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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, 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)
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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)
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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)
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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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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, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 1594-1623. 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, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 1289-1338. 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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Children’s Upward Educational Mobility as a Booster for Parents’ Subjective Well-Being in Later Life (2025)
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Schmitz, Alina & Rasmus Hoffmann (2025): Children’s Upward Educational Mobility as a Booster for Parents’ Subjective Well-Being in Later Life. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 77, H. 4, S. 803-823. DOI:10.1007/s11577-025-01021-0
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"In vielen europäischen Ländern hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine starke Bildungsexpansion stattgefunden. Während das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Bildungsaufsteigerinnen und -aufsteigern bereits intensiv untersucht wurde, ist wenig darüber bekannt, wie intergenerationaler Bildungsaufstieg mit dem Wohlbefinden von geringer gebildeten Eltern zusammenhängt. Anhand multivariater Regressionsmodelle auf Basis des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) untersuchen wir, ob die Bildungsmobilität der Kinder mit dem Wohlbefinden der Eltern – gemessen an ihrer Lebenszufriedenheit – in Verbindung steht. Zudem analysieren wir, ob Eltern mit niedriger Bildung stärker vom Bildungsaufstieg ihrer Kinder profitieren als Eltern mit mittlerer Bildung und welche Mechanismen diesen Zusammenhang erklären könnten.Eltern mit aufwärtsmobilen Kindern berichteten eine höhere Lebenszufriedenheit als Eltern mit nicht-mobilen oder abwärtsmobilen Kindern. Der Effekt war bei Eltern mit niedriger Bildung etwas ausgeprägter als bei Eltern mit mittlerer Bildung. Zudem verstärkte sich der positive Zusammenhang mit der Lebenszufriedenheit, wenn Eltern mehr als ein Kind mit höherer Bildung hatten. Die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen dieses Zusammenhangs konnten nicht vollständig identifiziert werden. Emotionale Nähe, finanzielle Unterstützung und praktische Hilfe durch Kinder standen zwar generell in Verbindung mit der elterlichen Lebenszufriedenheit, unterschieden sich jedoch nicht ausreichend zwischen Eltern mit und ohne aufwärtsmobile Kinder, um die mobilitätsbezogenen Unterschiede in der Lebenszufriedenheit vollständig zu erklären.Intergenerationale Bildungsmobilität stellt eine potenziell relevante und „neue“ Dimension sozialer Ungleichheit im Alter dar, da die Lebenslage im späteren Leben auch vom Bildungskapital der erwachsenen Kinder beeinflusst werden kann. Unsere Ergebnisse unterstreichen die Notwendigkeit weiterer Forschung, um die Rolle intergenerationaler Bildungsmobilität für das elterliche Wohlbefinden im höheren Lebensalter besser zu verstehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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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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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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Berufsbildung ist zentral für soziale Mobilität: Gastbeitrag (2025)
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Wolter, Stefan C. (2025): Berufsbildung ist zentral für soziale Mobilität. Gastbeitrag. In: IAB-Forum H. 05.12.2025. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20251205.01
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"Ähnlich wie in Deutschland ergänzt auch in der Schweiz ein leistungsfähiges und durchlässiges System der Berufsbildung den klassischen akademischen Bildungsweg. In der Schweiz führt dies zu mehr Aufstiegschancen und insgesamt mehr höherer Bildung und verbesserten Einkommen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt der Berner Bildungsökonom Stefan C. Wolter in einem Gastbeitrag für das IAB-Forum." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Berufliche Mobilität in Deutschland
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