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Fernández-Lozano, Irina, M. José González, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero & Juan-Ignacio Martínez-Pastor (2020): The Hidden Cost of Flexibility: A Factorial Survey Experiment on Job Promotion. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 36, H. 2, S. 265-283. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcz059

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"This article analyses the role of gender, parenthood, and work flexibility measures and the mediating role of stereotypes on the likelihood of achieving an internal promotion in Spain. We hypothesize that employers favour fathers over mothers and disfavour flexible workers (flexibility stigma) because they are perceived, respectively, as less competent and less committed. We also hypothesize that employers reflect their gender values in the selection process. These hypotheses are tested using data from a survey experiment in which 71 supervisors from private companies evaluate 426 short vignettes describing six different candidates for promotion into positions that require decision-making and team supervision skills. Several candidate characteristics are experimentally manipulated, while others such as skills and experience in the company are kept constant to minimize the risk of statistical discrimination. Contrary to our expectations, fathers are not preferred in promotion, as they are not perceived as being more competent than mothers. However, we find that flexibility leads to lower promotion scores, partly due to its association with a lack of commitment. Although the statutory right to reduce working hours for care reasons seems a major social achievement, this experiment shows that mothers may be indirectly penalized, as they are the main users of this policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hirsch, Boris, Elke Jahn & Thomas Zwick (2020): Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches. In: BJIR, Jg. 58, H. 3, S. 690-718., 2019-11-01. DOI:10.1111/bjir.12509

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"We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age and tenure dimensions affects job switches. Fitting duration models for workers' job‐to‐job turnover rate that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large manufacturing plants in Germany during 1975 - 2016, we find that larger co‐worker similarity in all five dimensions substantially depresses job‐to‐job moves, whereas workplace diversity is of limited importance. In line with conventional wisdom, which has that birds of a feather flock together, our interpretation of the results is that workers prefer having co‐workers of their kind and place less value on diverse workplaces." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Jenkins, Stephen P. (2020): Was the mid-2000s drop in the British job change rate genuine or a survey design effect? In: Economics Letters, Jg. 194. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109383

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"The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to reduce measurement error and improve consistency. Estimates from models of job change misclassification (Hausman et al., 1998) show that reduced measurement error cannot account for the fall in the job change rate. This suggests that the fall was genuine." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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Kosteas, Vasilios D. (2020): Occupational concentration and outcomes for displaced workers. In: Papers in Regional Science, Jg. 99, H. 4, S. 977-997. DOI:10.1111/pirs.12507

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"Displaced workers who end up changing occupations tend to suffer larger wage losses than those who do not. This paper examines the effect of the occupational concentration of employment in the local labour market (LLM) on the likelihood of being employed and (conditional on employment) having changed occupations for displaced workers. I find that workers who do not possess a postsecondary degree are less likely to be employed or to have changed occupations in more occupationally concentrated labour markets. By contrast occupational concentration does not affect these outcomes for more educated workers. These findings are consistent with a pattern where less educated workers focus job searches within their current LLM." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Kourtellos, Andros, Christa Marr & Chih Ming Tan (2020): Local Intergenerational Mobility. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 126. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103460

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"Using NLSY data we investigate whether the observed patterns of economic mobility (as measured by income and educational attainment) exhibit heterogeneity across socioeconomic groups and whether the nature of the heterogeneity can be explained by different levels of persistence in the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities across these groups. In doing so we employ the varying coefficient model (VCM) to estimate nonparametric (local) measures of intergenerational mobility of those outcome variables. By local we mean that the persistence coefficients are modeled as smooth functions of log parental permanent income. Our findings show that intergenerational mobility exhibits nonlinear patterns. Individuals with different parental income are characterized by different degrees of intergenerational mobility. Moreover, we find evidence that suggests cognitive abilities play a role in explaining intergenerational mobility. These findings provide some support for a new class of family investment models that emphasize the role of such abilities in economic mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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Medici, Guri, Cécile Tschopp, Gudela Grote & Andreas Hirschi (2020): Grass roots of occupational change: Understanding mobility in vocational careers. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 122. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103480

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"Most prior research on career mobility has focused on people changing jobs and organizations. We know little about processes involved in individuals changing occupations, although these changes cause high individual, organizational, and public costs. Moreover, occupations are increasingly acknowledged as important anchors in times of more boundaryless careers. The current study investigates the impact of early satisfaction with the trained occupation (VET satisfaction) on occupational change by analyzing 10-year longitudinal panel data gathered in Switzerland (N = 905). Results from regression analyses showed that VET satisfaction predicted occupational change up to ten years after graduation. VET satisfaction in turn was affected by work characteristics experienced during VET, and VET satisfaction mediated the relationship between work characteristics during VET and occupational change. Using a subsample (N = 464) for which data were available on jobs taken up after graduation, we showed that VET satisfaction explained occupational change over and above work satisfaction in jobs held after graduation, highlighting the formative role of early experience during VET. Our findings inform both theory and practice. To fully comprehend occupational change, established turnover models also need to reflect on early formative vocational experiences. Firms should pay attention to favorable work characteristics already during VET and adjust adverse conditions to reduce undesired occupational mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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Mussida, Chiara & Luca Zanin (2020): I found a better job opportunity! Voluntary job mobility of employees and temporary contracts before and after the great recession in France, Italy and Spain. In: Empirical economics, Jg. 59, H. 1, S. 47-98. DOI:10.1007/s00181-019-01622-7

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"The voluntary mobility of employees who change employers for a better job remains an unexplored area of labour market transitions in many European countries. We analyse whether and how the recent great economic recession has contributed to modifications in such voluntary job mobility when employees have a temporary contract in France, Italy and Spain. We analyse cross-sectional data from the EU-SILC survey for two sub-periods: 2005–2008 and 2009–2015. We find that employees who have invested in human capital, who are young and who work more than 40 h per week are more likely than their counterparts to change employers for a better opportunity given a temporary contract. After the great recession, we observe a curbing of the studied voluntary job mobility that is likely attributable to the difficulty experienced by employees in finding a job that provides more benefits than their current one, with heterogeneous effects across socio-economic and demographic characteristics and the country of residence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Simpson, Brent & David Melamed (2020): What do the upwardly mobile think they deserve, and why? A multi-method investigation. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 65. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2019.100459

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Stijepic, Damir (2020): Job mobility and sorting. Theory and evidence. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 240, H. 1, S. 19-49. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2018-0047

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"Motivated by the canonical (random) on-the-job search model, I measure a person's ability to sort into higher ranked jobs by the risk ratio of job-to-job transitions to transitions into unemployment. I show that this measure possesses various desirable features. Making use of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I study the relation between human capital and the risk ratio of job-to-job transitions to transitions into unemployment. Formal education tends to be positively associated with this risk ratio. General experience and occupational tenure have a pronounced negative correlation with both job-to-job transitions and transitions into unemployment, leaving the risk ratio, however, mostly unaffected. In contrast, the estimates suggest that human-capital concepts that take into account the multidimensionality of skills, e.g. versatility, play a prominent role." (Author's abstract, © De Gruyter) ((en))

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Zimmerman, Ryan D., Brian W. Swider & Jeffrey B. Arthur (2020): Does turnover destination matter? Differentiating antecedents of occupational change versus organizational change. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 121. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103470

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"In this study, we seek to understand why some employees decide to leave organizations to change occupations instead of either changing organizations while staying in the same occupation or staying in the same job at the same organization. Moving beyond the existing focus on antecedents of occupational commitment and occupation withdrawal intentions, we employ an occupational embeddedness framework to examine five occupational factors as potential drivers of occupational change. Using a large dataset of 3201 professionals, our results indicate that several factors underlying the overarching concept of occupational embeddedness (e.g., wage level, non-core job duties, occupational investment, and moonlighting) were related to individuals' likelihood of changing occupations compared to changing organizations within the same occupation or staying at the same organization. Our findings suggest that specific turnover destination may be important to understanding why people leave jobs. We discuss the theoretical implications of our findings, along with practical implications at the occupational, organizational, and individual levels regarding how occupational turnover may be prevented." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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Aepli, Manuel (2019): Technological change and occupation mobility: A task-based approach to horizontal mismatch. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 361), Maastricht, 48 S.

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"Technological change and its impacts on labour markets are a much-discussed topic in economics. Economists generally assume that new technology penetrating the labour market shifts firms' task demand. Given individuals' acquired and supplied skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster horizontal skill mismatches, e.g. individuals not working in their learned occupations. In this paper, I first analyse the relation between task shifting technological change and individuals' horizontal mismatch incidence. Second, I estimate individuals' mismatch wage penalties triggered by this relation. The present paper proposes an instrumental variable (IV) approach to map this mechanism and to obtain causal estimates on mismatch wage penalties. Applying this empirical strategy yields a wage penalty of roughly 12% for horizontally mismatched individuals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Amior, Michael (2019): Education and geographical mobility. The role of wage rents. (CEP discussion paper 1616), London, 59 S.

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"Geographical mobility is known to be crucial to the adjustment of local labor markets. But there is severe inequity in the incidence of mobility: better educated Americans make many more long-distance moves. I argue this is a consequence of larger wage offer dispersion, independent of geography. In a thin labor market, this generates larger wage rents (in excess of workers' reservations) in new job matches, particularly for younger workers who are just beginning their careers. If an offer happens to arrive from a distant location, these larger rents are more likely to justify the cost of moving - even if the offer distribution is invariant geographically. Also, local job creation will elicit a larger migratory response. I motivate my claims with new evidence on mobility patterns and subjective moving costs. And I test my hypothesis by estimating wage returns to local and long-distance job matching over the jobs ladder. Though I focus on education differentials, this paper offers new insights for understanding geographical immobility more generally" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Barlevy, Gadi & Derek Neal (2019): Allocating effort and talent in professional labor markets. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 187-246. DOI:10.1086/698899

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"In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explains why. We argue that the productivity of skilled partners in professional service firms (e.g., law, consulting, investment banking, and public accounting) is quite large relative to the productivity of their peers who are competent and experienced but not well suited to the partner role. Therefore, these firms adopt personnel policies that facilitate the identification of new partners. In our model, both heavy workloads and up-or-out rules serve this purpose." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bol, Thijs, Christina Ciocca Eller, Herman G. van de Werfhorst & Thomas A. DiPrete (2019): School-to-work linkages, educational mismatches, and labor market outcomes. In: American Sociological Review, Jg. 84, H. 2, S. 275-307. DOI:10.1177/0003122419836081

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"A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the structural effects of linkage strength between school and work, which vary considerably across industrialized countries. In an analysis of France, Germany, and the United States, we find that workers have higher earnings when they are in occupations that match their educational level and field of study, but the size of this earnings boost depends on the clarity and strength of the pathway between their educational credential and the labor market. The earnings premium associated with a good occupational match is larger in countries where the credential has a stronger link to the labor market, but the penalty for a mismatch is also greater in such countries. Moreover, strong linkage reduces unemployment risk. These findings add nuance to often-made arguments that countries with loosely structured educational systems have more flexible labor markets and produce better labor market outcomes for workers. An institutional environment that promotes strong school-to-work pathways appears to be an effective strategy for providing workers with secure, well-paying jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Forsythe, Eliza (2019): Careers within firms: Occupational mobility over the lifecycle. In: Labour, Jg. 33, H. 3, S. 241-277. DOI:10.1111/labr.12146

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"With falling labor market dynamism in the United States, opportunities within firms take on increasing importance in young workers' career progression. Developing a variety of occupational ranking metrics, I show that occupational mobility within firms follows a standard lifecycle pattern in which the frequency, distance, and wage return from mobility fall with age. However, when upward and downward mobility are considered separately, the distance of moves increases over the lifecycle. Thus, while young workers make the smallest distance occupational moves up and down, they have the largest wage gains and losses associated with these moves. I find that wage growth for young workers deteriorated substantially in the first decade of the 2000s, primarily driven by a reduction in wage growth within firms, whereas mid-career workers have experienced no such change. I argue this is most likely driven by the dramatic fall in employer-to-employer mobility for young workers since the early 2000s. Encouragingly, wage growth has improved markedly for young workers since 2012." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Fries-Tersch, Elena, Tugce Tugran, Agnieszka Markowska & Matthew Jones (2019): 2018 annual report on intra-EU labour mobility. Final report December 2018. (... annual report on intra-EU labour mobility / European Commission), Luxembourg, 194 S. DOI:10.2767/25927

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"The annual report on intra-EU labour mobility provides updated information on labormobility trends in EU and EFTA countries. Annual developments in stocks and flows are analyzed in the perspective of longer-term trends. The analysis considers the mobility of all working-age citizens (20-64 years) as well as the mobility of those who are active (employed and unemployed). The report also looks at indicators of economic integration of mobile citizens, such as employment/unemployment rates and occupations. This year, two specific topics on the qualifications and the household composition of the EU-28 movers are further analyzed. The two main data sources used are Eurostat population and migration statistics – for mobility of all citizens – and the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) for the analysis of mobility of active citizens and economic integration. For methodological reasons estimated numbers of EU movers differ." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gabe, Todd, Jaison R. Abel & Richard Florida (2019): Can workers in low-end occupations climb the job ladder? In: Economic Development Quarterly, Jg. 33, H. 2, S. 92-106. DOI:10.1177/0891242419838324

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"There is growing concern over rising economic inequality, the decline of the middle class, and a polarization of the U.S. workforce. This study examines the extent to which workers in the United States transition from low-end to higher-quality occupations, and explores the factors associated with such a move up the job ladder. Using data covering the expansion following the Great Recession (2011-2017) and focusing on short-term (i.e., less than 1 year) labor market transitions, the authors find that just slightly more than 5% of workers in low-end occupations moved into a higher-quality occupation. Instead, around 70% of workers in low-end occupations stayed in the same occupation, 11% exited the labor force, 7% became unemployed, and 6% switched to a different low-end occupation. Study results point to the importance of educational attainment in helping workers successfully climb the job ladder." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Garnero, Andrea, Alexander Hijzen & Sébastien Martin (2019): More unequal, but more mobile? Earnings inequality and mobility in OECD countries. In: Labour economics, Jg. 56, H. January, S. 26-35. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.08.005

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"This paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories using short panels for 24 OECD countries. On average across countries, only 20% of earnings inequality in a given year evens out over the life cycle as a result of mobility. This suggests that the bulk of earnings inequality at a given time is permanent. Moreover, mobility and inequality are positively correlated across countries, suggesting that international differences in life-time inequality tend to be less pronounced than inequality differences in a given year. The positive correlation is largely driven by employment mobility - movements between employment and unemployment - and most pronounced in the bottom of the distribution." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Huizen, Thomas van & Rob Alessie (2019): Risk aversion and job mobility. In: Journal of economic behavior & organization, Jg. 164, H. August, S. 91-106. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2019.01.021

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Liu, Kai (2019): Wage risk and the value of job mobility in early employment careers. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 139-185. DOI:10.1086/698898

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"This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel that employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks. I estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of employment and job mobility. The key feature of the model is the specification of wage shocks at the worker-firm-match level, for workers can respond to these shocks by changing jobs. I find that, relative to the variance of individual-level shocks, the variance of match-level shocks is large and the consequent value of job mobility is substantial, particularly for workers whose match-specific wages are low." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Nakamura, Alice, Emi Nakamura, Kyle Phong & Jón Steinsson (2019): New evidence on the cyclicality of employer-to-employer flows from Canada. In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 109, S. 456-460. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20191053

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"This paper presents new estimates of gross worker flows for Canada for the sample period 1978 to 2016. We use administrative data from the Canadian Record of Employment in combination with the Canadian Labor Force Survey to estimate employer-to-employer flows in addition to flows between labor market states. We highlight three main results: Roughly two-thirds of all job separations are employer-to-employer flows. Employer-to-Employer flows are highly procyclical. The combination of these two results means that total job separations are procyclical. If employer-to-employer flows improve match quality, our results imply that recessions have a sullying effect on the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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O'Bar, Andrew (2019): What’s behind occupational separations? In: Monthly labor review, Jg. June, S. 1-11. DOI:10.21916/mlr.2019.13

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"Using the latest models of occupational separations from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, this article examines how the demographic characteristics of workers affect their probabilities of leaving the labor force or changing occupations. The article demonstrates that two factors—age and educational attainment—have the greatest impact on separations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pearlman, Jessica (2019): Occupational mobility for whom? Education, cohorts, the life course and occupational gender composition, 1970-2010. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 59, H. February, S. 81-93. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2018.11.009

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Pettinicchi, Yuri & Axel Börsch-Supan (2019): Long-term effects of different labour careers. In: A. Börsch-Supan, J. Bristle, K. Andersen-Ranberg, A. Brugiavini, F. Jusot, H. Litwin & G. Weber (Hrsg.) (2019): Health and socio-economic status over the life course : First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7, S. 109-117. DOI:10.1515/9783110617245-011

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"This chapter computes the share of active labour market participation during an individual's life course. We also count the number of job spells to distinguish workers with dynamic careers, that is, workers who changed several jobs over a lifetime. On the one hand, jobs changes may imply income improvements attributable to promotion or better matching. On the other hand, a large number of job changes may also be attributable to many exits from and re-entries into the labour market that are likely to reduce income growth over the life cycle. We identify four categories of labour careers: always active individuals with one job spell, always active individuals with several job spells, seldom active individuals with one job spell and seldom active individuals with several job spells." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bellani, Luna & Vigile Marie Fabella (2018): Upward income mobility and legislator support for education policies. (IZA discussion paper 11324), Bonn, 32 S.

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"This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop an electoral competition model where voters are altruistic parents and politicians are office seeking. In this setting the future economic status of the children is affected both by current public education spending and by the level of upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with electoral district-level upward mobility we find that the likelihood of a legislator voting 'no' on redistributive education bills decreases by 10 percentage points when upward mobility in his electoral district decreases by a standard deviation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Cisternas, Gonzalo (2018): Career concerns and the nature of skills. In: American Economic Journal. Microeconomics, Jg. 10, H. 2, S. 152-189. DOI:10.1257/mic.20160277

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"I examine how career concerns are shaped by the nature of productive actions taken by workers. A worker's skills follow a Gaussian process with an endogenous component reflecting human- capital accumulation. Effort and skills are substitutes both in the output process (as in Holmström 1999) and in the skills technology. The focus is on deterministic equilibria by virtue of Gaussian learning. When effort and skills are direct inputs to production and skills are exogenous, effort can be inefficiently high in the beginning of a career. In contrast, when skills are the only input to production but accumulate through past effort choices, the worker always underinvests in skill acquisition. At the center of the discrepancy are two types of ex post errors that arise at interpreting output due to an identification problem faced by the market. Finally, the robustness of the underinvestment result is explored via variations in the skill- accumulation technology and in the information structure, and policy implications are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Eriksson, Rikard H., Emelie Hane-Weijman & Martin Henning (2018): Sectoral and geographical mobility of workers after large establishment cutbacks or closures. In: Environment and planning. A, Economy and space, Jg. 50, H. 5, S. 1071-1091. DOI:10.1177/0308518X18772581

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"This paper studies redundant workers' industrial and geographical mobility, and the consequences of post-redundancy mobility for regional policy strategies. This is accomplished by means of a database covering all workers who became redundant in major shutdowns or cutbacks in Sweden between 1990 and 2005. Frequencies of industrial and geographical mobility are described over time, and the influence of some important characteristics that make workers more likely to be subject to particular forms of mobilities are assessed. We find that re-employment rates vary extensively across industries and time. Whereas going back to the same or related industries is the most common re-employment strategy among workers who find a new job in the first year, workers who do not benefit from quick re-employment are increasingly squeezed out to new job fields and regions. Older workers and workers with high vested interest in their original industries usually employ a 'same-industry/same-region' strategy. This most frequent, and perhaps often most attractive, same-industry strategy comes at a cost, however. Individuals who instead pursue other mobility strategies have a lower risk of suffering from another major redundancy in the future. Thus, in terms of regional policy, strategies promoting diversification to related industries after major redundancies seem to be much more important than trying to retain workers in their old industry. In this case the route via education (university or vocational training) is important, as it increases the likelihood of successfully changing industry at time of re-employment." (Author's abstract, © 2018 a Pion publication) ((en))

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Frederiksen, Anders & Takao Kato (2018): Human capital and career success. Evidence from linked employer-employee data. In: The economic journal, Jg. 128, H. 613, S. 1952-1982. DOI:10.1111/ecoj.12504

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"Using Danish registry data covering the population of Danish workers, we provide new and robust evidence with external validity on the importance of the breadth of human capital for top management appointments, and support/enrich the human capital theory of corporate leadership by Gibbons and Waldman and Lazear. Our analysis allows for both internal promotion and external recruitment as means to achieve top management appointments, and yields additional findings: the breath of human capital is more important in mature firms, as predicted by the theory; and the concept of firm-specific human capital applies to the breadth of human capital." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Fries-Tersch, Elena, Tugce Tugran, Ludovica Rossi & Harriet Bradley (2018): 2017 annual report on intra-EU labour mobility. Final Report Second edition September 2018. (... annual report on intra-EU labour mobility / European Commission), Luxembourg, 250 S. DOI:10.2767/077683

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"This report provides an annually updated picture of intra-EU labor mobility in the EU. It presents an overview of stocks and flows of all and of active EU movers of working age using the most up-to-date EU-wide comparable data. Therefore, the report identifies main countries of destination and of origin and identifies major changes compared to previous years in the Member States. Like every year, the report looks at the situation of movers on the labor market, by comparing indicators such as employment rates, occupations, sectors of activity, education, over-qualification between different groups of movers, to nationals in the country of residence and over time. Furthermore, the report addresses a variety of specific topics, that differ from year to year, depending on current developments and policy needs. This year, the report specifically looks at the gender dimension of mobility, language and other barriers to cross-border mobility in neighboring regions; and at the mobility of health professionals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. van der, Maria C. W. Peeters, Pascale M. Le Blanc & J. Wim M. Van Breukelen (2018): Job characteristics and experience as predictors of occupational turnover intention and occupational turnover in the European nursing sector. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 108, H. October, S. 108-120. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.008

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"The present study aims to unravel the relationships between job demands and resources, occupational turnover intention, and occupational turnover. To do so, we tested a model wherein associations between nurses' age, tenure in profession and tenure with present employer (experience in the profession), job demands (emotional demands, work-home interference), and job resources (influence at work and opportunities for development) predicted occupational turnover intention, and, subsequently, occupational turnover. A longitudinal survey was conducted among a sample of 753 nurses working in European health care institutions (hospitals, nursing homes, and community/home care). The results supported the hypotheses that job demands are positively related with occupational turnover intention while job resources and experience in the nursing profession are negatively related with occupational turnover intention. We did not find evidence supporting the hypothesis that occupational turnover intention mediates the relationship between job demands and job resources on the one hand, and occupational turnover on the other hand. Experience in the nursing profession had a direct effect on occupational turnover, in addition to the direct effect of occupational turnover intention. The implications of our findings for understanding the process through which health care organizations can affect occupational turnover intention and actual exit behavior, are discussed." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Jinkins, David & Annaig Morin (2018): Job-to-job transitions, sorting, and wage growth. In: Labour economics, Jg. 55, H. December, S. 300-327. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.10.008

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"In this paper we measure the relative contribution of firm effects and match quality to wage growth experienced by workers moving between jobs. We provide evidence that firm effects only explain a small share of the observed wage dynamics. We also show that standard assumptions on match quality used to estimate fixed-effect wage models are not well supported in Danish data. We propose an alternative strategy to estimate an additive model of wage changes that includes a freely-varying match effect for all but a subset of job changers. Using estimates from Danish linked worker-firm data, we find that 44% of the wage growth experienced by job-to-job movers is attributable to an improvement in the quality of the worker-firm match, and 66% of the variance of wage growth is explained by the variance of the change in match effects." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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McCollum, David, Ye Liu, Allan Findlay, Zhiqiang Feng & Glenna Nightingale (2018): Determinants of occupational mobility: the importance of place of work. In: Regional Studies. Journal of the Regional Studies Association, Jg. 52, H. 12, S. 1612-1623. DOI:10.1080/00343404.2018.1424993

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"This research focuses on individual and place-based determinants of occupational mobility in Scotland over the period 2001 - 11. Its originality relates to the importance of workplace location, rather than residential locations, on occupational mobility, and in questioning the idea that spatial mobility accelerates occupational mobility. The findings also indicate that skill level and employment in 'knowledge-intensive' sectors are key determinants of career progression. Urban career escalator effects are found to be particularly evident for higher-skilled workers. The findings point to the importance of spatial sophistication and sectoral sensitivity in understandings of occupational mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Merlino, Luca Paolo, Pierpaolo Parrotta & Dario Pozzoli (2018): Gender differences in sorting. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 57, H. 4, S. 671-709. DOI:10.1111/irel.12216

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"In this paper, we investigate gender differences in workers' career development within and outside the firm to explain the existence of gender wage gaps. Using Danish employer-employee matched data, we find that good female workers are more likely to move to better firms than men but are less likely to be promoted. Furthermore, these differences in career advancement widen after the first child is born. Our findings suggest that career impediments in certain firms cause the most productive female workers to seek better jobs in firms in which there is less gender bias." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Novak, Pavel (2018): Berufliche Mobilität von Lehrpersonen. Eine empirische Untersuchung zum Berufswechsel von Primarlehrpersonen zu Berufsfachschullehrpersonen für Allgemeinbildung an Schweizer Berufsfachschulen. (Internationale Hochschulschriften 649), Münster: Waxmann, 382 S.

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"Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die berufliche Mobilität von Schweizer Primarlehrpersonen. Diese sind aus der obligatorischen Schule aus- und an die Berufsfachschule umgestiegen, wo sie das Fach Allgemeinbildender Unterricht (ABU) betreuen. Aus den berufsbiographischen Erzählungen geht hervor, dass die Primarlehrpersonen ihre Entscheidung, an die Berufsfachschule zu wechseln, als nichtintendiert und 'zufällig' interpretieren. In der Regel geht der berufliche Umstieg auf eine direkte Anfrage seitens einer Berufsfachschule zurück ('Rekrutierungsmodell'). Der Umstieg erfolgt aus unterschiedlichen Motiven, wobei bei den Umsteigern eher karriereorientierte und bei den Umsteigerinnen eher pragmatische Motive vorwiegen. Die Umsteiger*innen gehen ein wohlkalkuliertes Risiko ein, da sie trotz des Berufswechsels innerhalb des pädagogischen Berufsfelds verbleiben. Die Studie ergänzt die Forschung zur beruflichen Laufbahn von Schweizer Primarlehrpersonen um eine bisher unbekannte Facette." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Ommeren, Jos van (2018): Commuting and Relocation of Jobs and Residences. (Routledge revivals), London: Routledge, 184 S.

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This title was first published in 2000: An analysis of commuting behaviour from an integrated labour and housing market perspective. A theoretical search model is proposed and analyzed with an emphasis on two-owner households. The book provides insights into the relationship between job and residential moving and commuting behaviour.

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Pearlman, Jessica (2018): Gender differences in the impact of job mobility on earnings. The role of occupational segregation. In: Social science research, Jg. 74, H. August, S. 30-44. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.05.010

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Robinson, Chris (2018): Occupational mobility, occupation distance, and specific human capital. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 53, H. 2, S. 513-551. DOI:10.3368/jhr.53.2.0814-6556R2

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"Distance and direction measures are constructed and used to contrast occupational mobility following involuntary job displacement and total occupational mobility. Displacement involves specific capital loss. Some voluntary occupational mobility, for example, promotions, reflects augmented skills rather than specific human capital loss. Wage losses following displacement are strongly related to distance and direction. This is reflected in a downward shift in the skill portfolio. By contrast, the skill portfolio change in total occupational mobility shows a neutral or modest upward pattern, suggesting limited or no specific human capital loss from voluntary occupational mobility. The mean distance in occupational mobility following displacement declined significantly in the 1980s and 1990s suggesting the labor market was more efficiently reemploying workers following displacement, lowering displacement costs in that period." (Author's abstract, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))

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Schmidt, Joseph A., Chelsea R. Willness, David A. Jones & Joshua S. Bourdage (2018): Human resource management practices and voluntary turnover. A study of internal workforce and external labor market contingencies. In: The international journal of human resource management, Jg. 29, H. 3, S. 571-594. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2016.1165275

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"We tested relationships between employee quit rates and two bundles of human resource (HR) practices that reflect the different interests of the two parties involved in the employment relationship. To understand the boundary conditions for these effects, we examined an external contingency proposed to influence the exchange-based effects of HR practices on subsequent quit rates - the local industry-specific unemployment rate - and an internal contingency proposed to shape employees' conceptualization of their exchange relationship - their employment status (i.e. full-time, part-time and temporary employment). Analyses of lagged data from over 200 Canadian establishments show that inducement HR practices (e.g. extensive benefits) and performance expectation HR practices (e.g. performance-based bonuses) had different effects on quit rates, and the former effect was moderated by unemployment rate. The effects of HR practices on quit rates did not differ between FT and PT employees, but a different pattern of main and interactive effects was found among temporary workers. These findings suggest that employees' exchange-based decisions to leave may be less affected by the number of hours they expect to work each week, and more by the number of weeks they expect to work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Sánchez-Moral, Simón, Alfonso Arellano & Roberto Díez-Pisonero (2018): Interregional mobility of talent in Spain. The role of job opportunities and qualities of places during the recent economic crisis. In: Environment and planning. A, Economy and space, Jg. 50, H. 4, S. 789-808. DOI:10.1177/0308518X18761151

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"This paper seeks to extend our knowledge of the drivers behind talented workers' mobility within the Spanish urban system and the patterns they may follow. For this purpose, the stock and flows of creative workers (selected on the basis of either the industry-based or occupational approaches) are studied at different spatial scales while also considering the influence of local characteristics as a source of attracting and retaining forces. The study is based on the analysis of a quite novel longitudinal micro-database from the Spanish Social Security office. Under the conditions of lower mobility of creative workers compared with other geographical contexts - a trend worsened by the economic crisis - we show that job opportunities, especially in connection with workers' social networks, emerge as the most influential attracting factor. Thus, beyond the classic idea that agglomeration economies benefit all residents, we found evidence that the biggest cities, and Madrid in particular, had become 'escalator regions', propelling the careers of young creative workers that had been attracted to them. On the contrary, the influence of urban amenities seems limited to the retention of talent. This research aims to contribute to dealing with the challenge of upgrading local productive forces after the economic crisis and to develop tailor-made talent attraction and retention strategies" (Author's abstract, © 2018 a Pion publication) ((en))

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Söhn, Janina (2018): Is it time for a change? A literature review on occupational mobility among older workers in Germany and the USA. (SOFI-Arbeitspapier 13), Göttingen, 38 S.

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"Mit zunehmenden Alter stellt sich für so manchen die Frage, ob sie in ihrem bisherigen Beruf bis zur Verrentung arbeiten wollen oder können. Unter welchen Umständen wechseln Individuen in ihrer mittleren und späteren Erwerbsbiografie ihren Beruf und wodurch genau zeichnen sich diese Berufswechsel aus? Dies sind die Kernfragen, die dieser Literaturbericht beantworten möchte. Berufliche Mobilität wird hier als der Wechsel des beruflichen Felds, in dem man erwerbstätig ist, verstanden. Dieser Übergang kann bezogen auf die Veränderung von Einkommen, Prestige und erforderlichem Qualifikationsniveau aufwärts, lateral oder abwärts gerichtet sein. Der Forschungsreview stellt zunächst unterschiedliche Theorien von Beruf vor, da diese auch für die Erklärung beruflicher Mobilität bedeutsam ist. Der darauffolgende Abschnitt konzeptualisiert die Multidimensionalität von Berufswechseln. Eigenschaften wie der Umfang der wöchentlichen Arbeitsstunden oder Aspekte prekärer Beschäftigung, die mit dem alten oder neuen Beruf assoziiert sind, können als Push- bzw. Pull-Faktoren fungieren. Der umfangreichste Abschnitt ist den theoretischen und empirischen Ergebnissen bisheriger Forschung zu unterschiedlichen Einflüssen auf der Mikro- und Makroebene gewidmet: Alter, Gesundheit, Bildungsniveau sowie Weiterbildung und Umschulungen im späteren Erwachsenenalter, berufsbezogene Eigenschaften, die dem Berufswechsel vorangegangene Erwerbsbiografie, Geschlecht und haushaltbezogene Faktoren, ethnische und migrationsbezogene Entwicklungen seit Anfang der 2000er, welche das Auftreten von Berufswechslern befördert haben. Die meiste empirische Forschung bezieht sich auf die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und auf Deutschland, weshalb dieser Literaturüberblick zu einem gewissen Grad international vergleichend angelegt ist. Angesichts der gravierenden Forschungslücken zu beruflicher Mobilität unter älteren Erwerbstätigen in der Bundesrepublik im letzten Jahrzehnt präsentiert der Review eigene, nach Alter, Geschlecht und Bildungsniveau differenzierte Auswertungen des Mikrozensus 2012 zum Anteil von Erwerbstätigen, die im vorangegangenen Jahr ihren Beruf gewechselt haben. Das Schlusskapitel fasst die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse und verbleibende Forschungslücken zusammen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Tavares, Marisa, Anabela Carneiro & José Varejão (2018): The spatial dimension of internal labor markets. In: Journal of regional science, Jg. 58, H. 1, S. 181-203. DOI:10.1111/jors.12353

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"We integrate into a unified framework the spatial and the employment dimensions of worker mobility, tracing workers across firms, across establishments, and across regions. Drawing upon the spatial dimension of internal labor markets in firms with multiple establishments in multiple locations, our results indicate that the contemporaneous wage premium to migration is around 3 percentage points. For the case of job switchers, we find that the return to regional migration is due to access to better jobs at the destination. We also document the existence of an urban premium for same-employer migrants but for employer changes this premium is driven by selection." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Bachmann, Rüdiger, Christian Bayer, Christian Merkl, Stefan Seth, Heiko Stüber & Felix Wellschmied (2017): Worker churn and employment growth at the establishment level. (CEPR discussion paper 12343), London, 30 S.

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"We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975 - 2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at rapidly-adjusting establishments. We find that the patterns of churn along the employment growth distribution can be explained by separation rate shocks and time-to-hire frictions. These shocks become larger on average during boom periods leading to procyclical worker churn. Distinguishing between separations into non-employment and to other establishments, we find that separations to other establishments drive all procyclical churn. In a secondary contribution, we compare German worker and job flows with their US counterparts and recent US findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bachmann, Ronald, Peggy Bechara & Christina Vonnahme (2017): Occupational mobility in Europe: Extent, determinants and consequences. (Ruhr economic papers 732), Essen, 27 S.

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"We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change across the EU. In addition, we identify potential explanations for the observed cross-country variation. Our results show that on average, 3% of European workers change their occupation per year, and that the extent of occupational mobility differs strongly by country. Individual characteristics play an important role for person-specific occupational mobility, but have little explanatory power for differences between countries. Occupational mobility is strongly associated with earnings mobility, and occupation movers are more likely than job movers to experience a downward rather than an upward earnings transition; by contrast, changing occupation voluntarily is more often followed by an upward wage transition. As opposed to composition effects, labour-market institutions, especially employment protection legislation, seem to play an important role for explaining crosscountry differences in occupational mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Faberman, R. Jason, Andreas I. Mueller, Ayşegül Şahin & Giorgio Topa (2017): Job search behavior among the employed and non-employed. (NBER working paper 23731), Cambrige, Mass., 71 S. DOI:10.3386/w23731

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"Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job search: they receive more offers per application and are offered higher pay even after controlling for observable characteristics. We use an on-the-job search model with endogenous search effort and find that unobserved heterogeneity explains less than a third of the residual wage offer differential. The model calibrated using various moments from our survey provides a good fit to the data and implies a reasonable flow value of unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fernández-Macías, Enrique, Martina Bisello & Vincenzo Maccarrone (2017): Employment transitions and occupational mobility in Europe. The impact of the Great Recession. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, 62 S. DOI:10.2806/145355

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"This study investigates employment and occupational mobility in Europe before and after the 2008 financial crisis, with the aim of linking individual-level employment transitions to the broad labour market developments during the crisis, such as the surge in unemployment and the phenomenon of job polarisation. The analysis compares six European countries that represent different institutional clusters - France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It tracks the transitions of their working age populations into and out of inactivity, unemployment and employment (in five wage categories). The study seeks to better understand what happened to workers who lost their jobs during the recession, beyond the headline unemployment statistics. Did they find other work and, if so, was it better or worse paid? Were opportunities for upward occupational mobility affected by the crisis? The findings show that the countries studied fall into three distinct categories based on the degree of occupational mobility characterising their economies. An executive summary is available - see Related content." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Goda, Gopi Shah, Damon Jones & Colleen Flaherty Manchester (2017): Retirement plan type and employee mobility. The role of selection and incentive effects. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 52, H. 3, S. 654-679. DOI:10.3368/jhr.52.3.0315-6997R1

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"Relative to defined benefit (DB) plans, defined contribution (DC) plans have been linked to greater employee mobility. Because employees with different underlying mobility tendencies may sort across plans or firms, the relationship between plan type and mobility may be due to selection. We identify the role of selection by exploiting a natural experiment at an employer, in which the transition from a DB to a DC pension plan was affected by default rules. Using the default assignment as a source of exogenous variation in plan enrollment, we find that employees with higher mobility tendencies self-select into the DC plan." (Author's abstract, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))

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Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt & Erika McEntarfer (2017): Who moves up the job ladder? (NBER working paper 23693), Cambrige, Mass., 54 S. DOI:10.3386/w23693

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"In this paper, we use linked employer-employee data to study the reallocation of heterogeneous workers between heterogeneous firms. We build on recent evidence of a cyclical job ladder that reallocates workers from low productivity to high productivity firms through job-to-job moves. In this paper we turn to the question of who moves up this job ladder, and the implications for worker sorting across firms. Not surprisingly, we find that job-to-job moves reallocate younger workers disproportionately from less productive to more productive firms. More surprisingly, especially in the context of the recent literature on assortative matching with on-the-job search, we find that job-to-job moves disproportionately reallocate less-educated workers up the job ladder. This finding holds even though we find that more educated workers are more likely to work with more productive firms. We find that while more educated workers are less likely to match to low productivity firms, they are even less likely to separate from them, with less educated workers both more likely to separate to a better employer in expansions and to be shaken off the ladder (separate to nonemployment) in contractions. Our findings underscore the cyclical role job-to-job moves play in matching workers to higher productivity and better paying employers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hertel, Florian R. (2017): Social mobility in the 20th century. Class mobility and occupational change in the United States and Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 403 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-14785-3

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"Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility prospects turned to the worse in both countries. In light of these findings, the book develops a narrative account of historical socio-political developments that are likely to have driven the basic resemblances across countries but also account for the initial decline and the more recent increase in intergenerational inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pringle, Judith K., Candice Harris, Katherine Ravenswood, Lynne Giddings, Irene Ryan & Sabina Jaeger (2017): Women's career progression in law firms. Views from the top, views from below. In: Gender, Work and Organization, Jg. 24, H. 4, S. 435-449. DOI:10.1111/gwao.12180

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"Law continues to be an attractive career path for women. Yet evidence shows that women's careers in law stagnate with proportionally small numbers of women progressing up the hierarchy from law graduate to partner. In this study we investigated how gendering and class processes impact on women's career progression. A major contribution is that we explored the heterogeneous views held by women below and above the partnership line, in Auckland's top law firms. Drawing on Acker's gendering processes (1990, 2006a) plus the accumulation of appropriate capitals needed to progress, we analysed 52 interview accounts. The women lawyers themselves were divided on how gendering and class processes impact on their career progression. Women partners accepted the hierarchical employment model of law and were confident in their role and place. Women below the partner line, while frustrated by the personal and professional requirements for success, did not demonstrate agency for change. In concluding, we reflect on the potential for change in the profession." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Bechara, Peggy, Julia Bredtmann, Sandra Schaffner & Christina Vonnahme (2016): Durchlässigkeit europäischer Arbeitsmärkte. Gütersloh, 94 S.

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"Die vorliegende Studie bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Durchlässigkeit der Arbeitsmärkte in Europa, indem sie die Mobilität individueller Arbeitnehmer analysiert, sowohl in Bezug auf Übergänge zwischen Arbeitsmarktzuständen und Vertragstypen (befristet/unbefristet) als auch in Bezug auf Wechsel des Berufs und Lohnmobilität. Diese Übergänge und Wechsel sind vor allem aus zwei Gründen von Bedeutung: Einerseits übt die Durchlässigkeit des Arbeitsmarktes einen außerordentlich wichtigen Einfluss auf das Wohlergehen des individuellen Arbeitnehmers aus; andererseits bedingt sie die Anpassungsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft bspw. während einer Krise oder im Aufschwung nach einer Krise. In diesem Zusammenhang spielt die Nachhaltigkeit von Beschäftigung eine bedeutende Rolle, wobei Beschäftigung als nachhaltig betrachtet wird, wenn sie relativ hohe Stabilität und Aufstiegschancen bietet." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Barone, Guglielmo & Sauro Mocetti (2016): Intergenerational mobility in the very long run. Florence 1427-2011. (Banca d'Italia. Temi di discussione 1060), Rom, 35 S.

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"We examine intergenerational mobility in the very long run, across generations that are six centuries apart. We exploit a unique dataset containing detailed information at the individual level for all people living in the Italian city of Florence in 1427. These individuals have been associated, using their surnames, with their pseudo-descendants living in Florence in 2011. We find that earnings elasticity is about 0.04, much higher than predicted by traditional models of intergenerational mobility. We also find an even stronger role for real wealth inheritance and evidence of persistence in belonging to certain elite professions. Our results are confirmed when we account for the quality of the pseudo-links and when we address the potential selectivity bias due to the differential survival rates across surnames. We argue that the quasi-immobility of preindustrial society and the positional advantages in the access to certain professions might explain (in part) the long-lasting effects of ancestors' socioeconomic status." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos, Bart Hobijn, Powen She & Ludo Visschers (2016): The extent and cyclicality of career changes. Evidence for the U.K. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 84, H. May, S. 18-41. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.09.008

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"Using quarterly data for the U.K. from 1993 through 2012, we document that the extent of worker reallocation across occupations or industries (a career change, in the parlance of this paper) is high and procyclical. This holds true after controlling for workers┐ previous labour market status and for changes in the composition of who gets hired over the business cycle. Our evidence suggests that a large part of this reallocation reflect excess churning in the labour market. We also find that the majority of career changes come with wage increases. During the economic expansion wage increases were typically larger for those who change careers than for those who do not. During the recession this is not true for career changers who were hired from unemployment. Our evidence suggests that understanding career changes over the business cycle is important for explaining labour market flows and the cyclicality of wage growth." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier) ((en))

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Debrulle, Jonas (2016): The role of entrepreneurship in the context of career trajectories. Moving back into wage employment or into unemployment? In: Labour, Jg. 30, H. 2, S. 180-197. DOI:10.1111/labr.12060

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"This study investigates patterns of movement from self-employment to wage employment or to unemployment in Belgium. Non-parametric techniques and complimentary log-log analyses are used to determine the significance of stable individual traits (e.g. gender) and of time-dependent characteristics (e.g. family and organizational context, labour market mobility) in moving back to wage employment or to unemployment. Evidence is provided on the possibility of entrepreneurship acting as a 'steppingstone' between long-term unemployment and paid work. Yet, significant relationships also emerge between ex-ante time spent in unemployment and the possibility of continued unemployment upon self-employment exit." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fleming, Christopher M., Temesgen Kifle & Parvinder Kler (2016): Immigrant occupational mobility in Australia. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 30, H. 5, S. 876-889. DOI:10.1177/0950017016631446

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"This research note takes an occupational attainment approach to examining the economic assimilation of immigrants in Australia. This approach differs from much of the existing literature, which tends to examine economic assimilation by looking at levels of (un)employment or wages. Focusing on occupational attainment is useful, in that disadvantage in the labour market is not limited to employment status and earnings, and an individual's occupation may provide a broader signal of their economic and social well-being. Findings indicate that, on arrival, immigrants from a non-English speaking background face significant disadvantage in occupational attainment, particularly those from Asian countries. There is also evidence to suggest that those who arrive later in life, or are from an Asian non-English speaking background, are the least likely to assimilate over time. Results are indicative of the need for policies to better integrate immigrants from more diverse cultures and societies into the Australian labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Garnero, Andrea, Alexander Hijzen & Sébastien Martin (2016): More unequal, but more mobile? Earnings inequality and mobility in OECD countries. (OECD social, employment and migration working papers 177), Paris, 45 S. DOI:10.1787/5jm3p5m7ccr2-en

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"This paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories in the long-term using short panel data for 24 OECD countries. On average across countries, about 25% of earnings inequality in a given year evens out over the life cycle as a result of mobility. Moreover, mobility is not systematically higher in countries with more earnings inequality in general. However, a positive and statistically significant relationship is found only in the bottom of the distribution. This reflects the role of mobility between employment and unemployment and not that of mobility up and down the earnings ladder." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gervais, Martin, Nir Jaimovich, Henry E. Siu & Yaniv Yedid-Levi (2016): What should I be when I grow up? Occupations and unemployment over the life cycle. In: Journal of monetary economics, Jg. 83, H. October, S. 54-70. DOI:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2016.08.003

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"Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young workers are more likely to be in matches that represent a poor occupational fit, they spend more time in transition between occupations. Through this mechanism, our model can replicate the observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier) ((en))

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Jungblut, Jean-Marie (2016): Changing places: Mid-career review and internal mobility. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, 78 S. DOI:10.2806/42599

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"Demographic ageing poses the challenge of how to keep people in employment for longer without negatively affecting their health and well-being. The solutions are particularly critical for workers engaged in arduous work. This report examines how mid-career reviews can play a key role by clarifying workers' options for remaining in work until a later retirement age. Following an exploration of career trajectories and transitions, the report focuses on arduous jobs: their incidence across Europe and the implications of such work for career and work sustainability. It examines various tools and strategies used by public authorities and social partners to keep workers in arduous jobs in employment longer. Finally, three case studies - from Belgium, France and the UK - of mid-career reviews undertaken either as pilot projects or as a legislative reform are presented" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Maggiori, Christian, Jérôme Rossier, Franciska Krings, Claire S. Johnston & Koorosh Massoudi (2016): Career Pathways and Professional Transitions: Preliminary Results from the First Wave of a 7-Year Longitudinal Study. In: M. Oris, C. Roberts, D. Joye & M. E. Stähli (Hrsg.) (2016): Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course, S. 131-157. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9_6

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"The main purpose of this chapter is to present and to discuss the implementation and the main methodological characteristics, notably in terms of design and research protocol, sampling and data collection procedure via a mixed-mode approach, of our 7-year longitudinal study on professional trajectories. More specifically, adopting several psychological perspectives, this study addresses professional transitions and career pathways and personal experiences – particularly in terms of well-being – of employed and unemployed middle-aged adults (25–55 years) living in Switzerland. Furthermore, based on the first wave of data (N = 2469), we introduce some results concerning, amongst others, the predictors of the choice of the mode to complete the questionnaire and of the intention to participate in the next wave, and possible differences on vulnerability indicators with reference to personal characteristics, resources and professional situation. Finally, considering the procedure implemented and the results emerging from this first wave, we discuss several implications and challenges for the next waves." (Author's abstract, © Springer) ((en))

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Mohl, Erich (2016): Berufliche (Um)Orientierung im Erwachsenenalter am Beispiel von Quereinsteigerinnen in das Lehramt für Berufsschulpädagogik in Österreich. In: Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - online H. H. Spezial 12, S. 1-19.

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"In Österreich unterscheiden sich die Zugangsmöglichkeiten und der Einstieg in das Lehramtsstudium für Berufsschulpädagogik grundlegend von den Lehrämtern der Primar- und Sekundarstufe des Allgemeinbildenden Schulwesens. Zukünftige Berufsschullehrerinnen werden zumeist als Quereinsteigerinnen direkt von den Berufsschulen angestellt und absolvieren die Lehramtsausbildung sowohl berufsbegleitend (1. und 3. Studienjahr) als auch vollzeitschulisch (2. Studienjahr) an den Pädagogischen Hochschulen Wien, Graz, Linz oder Innsbruck. Sowohl in der didaktisch-methodischen Ausbildung als auch bei den Berufswahlmotiven sind demzufolge Antagonismen zu finden. Der nachfolgende Artikel führt im einleitenden Abschnitt diese Unterschiedlichkeiten weiter aus. Anschließend werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung präsentiert, bei der rund 160 angehender Berufsschullehrerinnen, die zumeist mehr als zehn Jahre Berufspraxis in die Lehramtsausbildung mitbringen, zu ihren Berufswahlmotiven sowie zu ihrer Zufriedenheit mit der Berufswahl befragt wurden. Im Fazit werden Resultate mit Blick auf künftige Auswahlmaßnahmen und mögliche berufsbegleitende Coaching- und Fading-Maßnahmen diskutiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Stier, Haya & Miri Endeweld (2015): Employment transitions and labor market exits. Age and gender in the Israeli labor market. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 41, H. September, S. 93-103. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2015.01.002

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"This study focuses on the employment difficulties of older workers in the Israeli labor market. Using administrative panel data for the years 2005 - 2010, it traces the employment transitions of workers and their consequences, focusing on age and gender differences. The findings show that in Israel older workers, men and women alike, are indeed less likely to leave their jobs. However, once out of the labor force, they face difficulties in finding new employment. These difficulties are severer for women than for men. Male workers who experience high instability experience job losses, with no substantial age differences. The wage penalties for women are much lower, probably because of their limited opportunities in terms of earnings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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(2015): Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt für junge Beschäftigte. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion DIE LINKE (Drucksache 18/5313). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen), 94 S.

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"Die OECD (OECD - Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung) hat aktuell ihren Skills Outlook 2015 veröffentlicht. Der Anteil von befristeten Arbeitsverhältnissen bei jungen Beschäftigten liegt in Deutschland mit knapp 50 Prozent bei der Gruppe der 15- bis 24-Jährigen so hoch wie in kaum einem anderen der untersuchten Länder.
Dazu schreibt SPIEGEL ONLINE mit Bezug auf den OECD-Bericht: 'Befristete Jobs können zwar sinnvoll sein, indem sie jungen Menschen den Einstieg ins Berufsleben erleichtern. Oft sind sie aber auch mit gravierenden Nachteilen verbunden, wie die OECD ausführt: In vielen Fällen können befristet Beschäftigte ihre Fähigkeiten nicht voll in die Arbeit einbringen. Wer einen Zeitvertrag hat, hat auch geringere Chancen, an einer Weiterbildung teilzunehmen. Im schlimmsten Fall können durch die Befristungen daher Kompetenzen verkümmern, warnt die Organisation.'
Vor diesem Hintergrund ist eine genauere Beleuchtung der Arbeitsmarktsituation für junge Beschäftigte notwendig, und es stellt sich die Frage, welche Konsequenzen die Bundesregierung daraus zieht.
Falls zu den genannten Altersgruppen keine Daten vorliegen, wird gebeten, die vorhandenen Daten zu ähnlichen oder vergleichbaren Altersgruppen anzugeben." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Erhel, Christine, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière & Danièle Trancart (2014): Labour market mobility patterns during the 2008 crisis. Inequalities in a comparative perspective. (Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi. Document de travail 169), Noisy-le-Grand, 34 S.

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"Using EU-SILC panel data from years 2008 to 2010, this paper builds typologies of labour market sequences over the three years, using a clustering analysis algorithm. The results confirm the importance of individual characteristics (age, gender, education level) in observed labour market mobility patterns. Low-educated youth tend to be disadvantaged across the EU over the two years considered. Gender differences are mainly related to the importance of inactivity. Cross-country differences appear important in terms of medium term labour market trajectories, especially for youth. In particular, the heterogeneity across countries is the highest for low-educated youth. These differences are influenced by the labour market context, but also by the role of education system since sequences including studies are quite frequent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gianelle, Carlo (2014): Labor market intermediaries make the world smaller. In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Jg. 24, H. 5, S. 951-981. DOI:10.1007/s00191-014-0373-5

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"This paper uses network analysis to study how employment intermediaries have influenced inter-firm worker mobility in a region of Italy, in response to a 1997 reform that introduced temporary employment agencies. Worker reallocations from a matched employer-employee dataset are mapped onto a directed graph where the vertices are firms and the links denote transfers of workers between firms. Temporary employment agencies significantly improve network integration and practicability, while rapidly increasing the control over mobility channels. The trade off inherent in intermediation activity is captured and discussed. The potential of network analysis as a tool for monitoring regional labor markets is highlighted." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kidd, Michael, Nigel O'Leary & Peter Sloane (2014): Should I stay or should I go?: an investigation of graduate regional mobility in the UK and its impact upon early career earnings. (IZA discussion paper 8325), Bonn, 31 S.

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"This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive relationship between regional mobility both in the choice of attending university and the choice of where to take up employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin (2014): Stay or leave? Race, education, and changing returns to the external labor market strategy, 1976 - 2009. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 41, H. 3, S. 305-349. DOI:10.1177/0730888414535218

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"Since the 1970s, firm-internal opportunities for advancement have waned, and more employees have switched employers to build their career. The author compares the effect of staying and leaving one's employer and how each career avenue reproduces or alleviates race-based earnings inequality. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics 1976 - 2009, the author finds that racial differences among women are unaffected by external mobility. Among men, the effect of switching depends on education: Since the 1970s, the Black - White gap first widened and then narrowed among male high school graduates. In contrast, the race gap first narrowed and then widened among male college graduates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schnitzlein, Daniel D. (2014): A new look at intergenerational mobility in Germany compared to the US. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 689), Berlin, 35 S.

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"Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature, which states that the German intergenerational elasticity estimates are lower than those for the US. However, based on highly comparable data, even a reasonable degree of variation in the sampling rules leads to similar estimates in both countries. I find no evidence for nonlinearities along the fathers' earnings distribution. In contrast, the analysis shows that mobility is higher for the sons at the lowest quartile of the sons' earnings distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the upper middle part of the earnings distribution. The corresponding pattern is clearly less pronounced in the US." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schwenkenberg, Julia M. (2014): Occupations and the evolution of gender differences in intergenerational socioeconomic mobility. In: Economics letters, Jg. 124, H. 3, S. 348-352. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.06.017

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"This paper analyzes intergenerational mobility experiences of daughters and sons with respect to their fathers' occupational status and documents changes in gender differences over time. While women have been in occupations with lower overall earnings potential, men are more likely to be in occupations characterized by long hours and low returns. The mobility gap in earnings has been closing and a mobility advantage with respect to education has been emerging." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Euler, Hanns Peter, Ursula Rami, Evelyne Glaser, Gerhard Reber & Johann Bacher (2013): Lohnt sich ein Auslandsaufenthalt während des Studiums? Ergebnisse der Evaluierung eines Förderprogrammes. In: Die Betriebswirtschaft, Jg. 73, H. 5, S. 425-447.

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"Der Nachweis der Wirkungen von geförderten studienbezogenen Auslandsaufenthalten hinsichtlich der angestrebten Ziele blieb international bisher aus. Am Beispiel des Kepler-Internationalisierungsprogrammes wurden zwei repräsentative Samples von Absolventen mit und ohne Auslandsaufenthalte (jeweils mit ca. n = 500) miteinander verglichen. Programmexterne Einflüsse konnten methodisch so gut wie ausgeschlossen werden. Das Ergebnis zeigt eindeutige Vorteile durch Auslandsaufenthalte sowohl hinsichtlich des Erwerbes von überfachlichen Kompetenzen als auch im späteren Berufsweg der Absolventen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Frederiksen, Anders & Jesper Rosenberg Hansen (2013): Trends in sector switching. Evidence from employer-employee data. (University Aarhus. Economics working paper 2013-11), Aarhus, 34 S.

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"Sector switching is new to the public administration literature and our knowledge about the prevalence and trends is limited. Yet, sector switching is an important phenomenon which casts light on public-private differences. We study sector switching in a modern economy using unique Danish register-based employer-employee data covering more than 25 years. We find that sector switching constitutes 18.5 percent of all job-to-job mobility and the trend is increasing both in general, for administrative professionals, for top managers and, in particular, for middle managers. These findings are robust to controlling for general trends in labour market mobility, unemployment and economic growth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gielen, Anne C. (2013): Repeated job quits. Stepping stones or learning about quality? In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies, Jg. 2, S. 1-22. DOI:10.1186/2193-9012-2-7

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"Increasing labor mobility is high on the political agenda because of its supposedly positive effects on labor market functioning. However, little attention has been paid to information imperfections, and to what extent they limit potential efficiency gains of labor mobility. When the quality of a new job offer is known ex ante, job quits serve as a stepping stone to better jobs. Yet, if job quality is only observed ex post, job quits may lead to worse matches. This paper argues that actual job quit behavior is characterized by a mixture of both, and investigates the relative empirical content of both extremes in quit decisions. A variance decomposition shows that for nearly 70% of job quits job quality was observed ex-ante; the remaining 30% was learned ex post. Hence, stimulating job mobility mostly improves labor market outcomes, though governments may aim to further reduce information imperfections in order to maximize the efficacy of labor policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kim, Young-Mi (2013): Diverging top and converging bottom. Labour flexibilization and changes in career mobility in the USA. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 27, H. 5, S. 860-879. DOI:10.1177/0950017012464418

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"The purpose of this study is to explore changes in career mobility in the US labour market during the late 1990s and early 2000s, a period in which career boundaries weakened and workers' employment options became increasingly flexible. Using multiple panel data of a nationally representative sample of US employees between 1990 and 2003, the pattern of workers' short-term movement across various types of boundaries in the labour market is analysed, as well as change over time and by skill group. The result shows that although the probability of switching firms increased for all workers, the career trajectories of lower-skilled groups showed increasingly opposite trends from those of higher-skilled groups. In particular, occupational immobility was reduced significantly for workers in lower-skilled occupations, yet their changes of occupation occurred mainly within their origin class, resulting in strengthening of class boundaries. Implications of this finding are discussed in light of recent debate on class stratification." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Long, Jason & Joseph Ferrie (2013): Intergenerational occupational mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850. In: The American economic review, Jg. 103, H. 4, S. 1109-1137. DOI:10.1257/aer.103.4.1109

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"The US tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's, though they had roughly equal rates of intergenerational occupational mobility in the late twentieth century. We extend this comparison into the nineteenth century using 10,000 nationally-representative British and US fathers and sons. The US was more mobile than Britain through 1900, so in the experience of those who created the US welfare state in the 1930s, the US had indeed been 'exceptional'. The US mobility lead over Britain was erased by the 1950s, as US mobility fell from its nineteenth century levels." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Shankar, Kameshwari & Suman Ghosh (2013): Theory of worker turnover and knowledge transfer in high-technology industries. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. 7, H. 2, S. 107-129. DOI:10.1086/671188

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"This paper builds a theoretical model to address evidence on labor mobility patterns in high-technology firms engaged in R&D. Worker turnover in these industries enables the efficient transfer of R&D knowledge across firms in a production environment characterized by volatile returns to R&D investment.We show that both the size and composition of labor turnover are affected by the extent to which R&D knowledge can be transferred and applied across the production processes of different firms. Our analysis also provides implications of such labor mobility for industry growth. We explain how labor turnover in the presence of knowledge transfer has contributed to the success of the high-technology cluster in Silicon Valley." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stoyanov, Andrey & Nikolay Zubanov (2013): Money on the table? Firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility. (IZA discussion paper 7702), Bonn, 54 S.

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"We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least two-thirds of the total output gain of 0.11% per year is netted by the firms, while the workers who bring spillovers receive at most 6% of it as the wage premium. The large share retained by the firms implies that spillovers through worker mobility are mostly a positive externality to them." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Brown, Alan, Jenny Bimrose, Sally-Anne Barnes & Deirdre Hughes (2012): The role of career adaptabilities for mid-career changers. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 80, H. 3, S. 754-761. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.003

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"Career adaptability is mediated by personality factors and socio-psychological processes, with learning playing an important role. Using a five-fold career adapt-abilities competency framework (defined here as control, curiosity, commitment, confidence and concern), which was developed from the international quantitative study that is the focus of this special edition, an explicitly qualitative study of the career biographies of mid-career changers from two European countries was undertaken. Data from 64 in-depth interviews with adults in contrasting labor markets from Norway and the UK were analysed deductively, using a career adapt-abilities framework. Results demonstrate the utility of the framework, as well as how adaptive adults used both formal and informal learning to develop career adapt-ability competencies, over time, across occupations and occupational sectors. A key conclusion relates to how this career adapt-abilities competency framework could be used to motivate adults in mid-career to adopt behaviors that help them effect positive career change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Chevalier, Arnaud (2012): To be or not to be... a scientist? (IZA discussion paper 6353), Bonn, 26 S.

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"Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British graduates from Higher Education we report that fewer than 50% of science graduates work in a scientific occupation three years after graduation. The wage premium observed for science graduates stems from occupational choice rather than a science degree. Accounting for selection into subject and occupation, the returns to working in a scientific occupation reaches 18% and there is no return to a science degree outside scientific occupations. Finally, scientists working in a scientific occupation are more satisfied with their educational and career choices, which suggests that those not working in these occupations have been pushed out of careers in science." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Franzoni, Chiara, Giuseppe Scellato & Paula Stephan (2012): The mover's advantage. Scientific performance of mobile academics. (NBER working paper 18577), Cambridge, Mass., 45 S. DOI:10.3386/w18577

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"We investigate performance differentials associated with mobility for research active scientists residing in a broad spectrum of countries and working in a broad spectrum of fields using data from the GlobSci survey. We distinguish between two categories of mobile scientists: (1) those studying or working in a country other than that of origin and (2) those who have returned to their native country after a spell of study or work abroad. We compare the performance of these mobile scientists to natives who have never experienced a spell of mobility and are studying or working in their country of origin. We find evidence that mobile scientists perform better than those who have not experienced mobility. Among the mobile, we find some evidence that those who return perform better than the foreign born save in the United States, suggesting that positive selection is not at work in determining who remains outside the country. This is supported by the finding that for most countries the performance of returnees is no different than that of compatriots who remain abroad after controlling for other effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lalé, Etienne (2012): Trends in occupational mobility in France: 1982-2009. In: Labour economics, Jg. 19, H. 3, S. 373-387. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2012.03.005

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"Are labor markets more turbulent now than thirty years ago? Most job and worker flows imply that the answer is 'no', with one exception: occupational mobility, which increased substantially in the United States. This paper remedies the lack of comparable evidence by focusing on France for the years 1982 to 2009. After correcting for various statistical biases and discrepancies that affect the measurement of occupational mobility, it documents this reallocation process overall and in different subgroups. The data reveal that, over the period considered, the fraction of workers switching occupation exhibits no trend in the aggregate because changing demographics mask increases in mobility within several age and education groups. After taking these composition effects into account, occupational mobility increased sharply in France as well." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lam, Simon S. K., Thomas W. H. Ng & Daniel C. Feldman (2012): The relationship between external job mobility and salary attainment across career stages. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 80, H. 1, S. 129-136. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2011.05.002

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"The current study examines the relationship between external job mobility and salary for employees in different career stages. Based on career stage and career timetable theories, we predict that external job mobility would generate the greatest salary benefits for early-career employees whereas external job mobility would generate fewer salary benefits for employees in mid- and late career stages. Data collected from multiple industries in Hong Kong and the United States consistently show that, as expected, highly mobile early-career employees earn significantly greater salaries than their less mobile peers do. The positive effects of external job mobility on salary were stronger for early-career workers than for mid-and late-career workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Nisic, Natascha & Parvati Trübswetter (2012): Lohnentwicklung 1994 bis 2008: Berufswechsler in Deutschland und Großbritannien. (IAB-Kurzbericht 01/2012), Nürnberg, 8 S.

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"Das Ausmaß beruflicher Mobilität wird häufig als Indikator für die Flexibilität von Arbeitsmärkten gesehen. Aus gesamtwirtschaftlicher Perspektive steht dabei die Anpassungsfähigkeit an den Strukturwandel im Vordergrund. Aus Sicht der einzelnen Arbeitnehmer eröffnen berufliche Veränderungen die Möglichkeit, in attraktivere Berufe zu wechseln. Hier werden die kurz- und langfristigen Effekte eines Berufswechsels auf die Löhne von abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland und Großbritannien untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich die Bedeutung institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen, die zum Teil sehr unterschiedliche Erwerbs- und Arbeitsmarktchancen für Arbeitnehmer erzeugen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)