The presentation is about the nature and how to clean errors in occupational coding in order to measure patterns of occupational mobility (US, UK and Canada). Furthermore it is shed light on how occupational mobility matters for cyclical earnings inequality (based on Carrillo-Tudela, Visschers and Wiczer, 2019), unemployment and its duration distribution (based on Carrillo-Tudela and Visschers, 2019) and cleansing and sullying effects of the business cycle (based on Carrillo-Tudela, Sumerfield and Visschers, 2019).
Veranstaltungsformat: In-person
Different Paths to Success – Habitus, Career-patterns and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
Starting with a comparison between the life-course approach and Bourdieu, the study focuses the relation between social origin and habitus on typical patterns of education- and employment trajectories. Therefore, it tries to provide a test of the social reproduction theory of Pierre Bourdieu using a subsample of longitudinal data from the adult cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Theoretically, we assume that the social class of one’s origin-family defines the process of socialization and hence the habitus of its members and is cumulative predictive for the generalizable patterns of educational- and employment sequences starting with school entry up to age 30. The individual or class-specific habitus as a “whole set of practices (or those of a whole set of agents produced by similar conditions)” (Bourdieu 1984:170) should hence correspond to differences in successful sequence-patterns, measured personality-traits and attitudes suggesting a stable class-specific realization of the habitus.
1st LISER-IAB Conference on Digital Transformation and the Future of Work
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) are pleased to announce the 1st LISER-IAB Conference on Digital Transformation and the Future of Work. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers in social sciences to discuss their more recent research related to digital transformation and the future of work. Researchers interested in presenting at the LISER-IAB conference are invited to submit theoretical, empirical and experimental contributions.
CANCELLED – European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association 2020
CANCELLED – The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Trade, Technology, and Demographics
The conference focuses on technology, trade, and demographic changes and the ways they interact with employment, wages, and participation in the labor market, with a particular emphasis on the role of institutions. Understanding these relationships is key in assessing the performance of the labor market and for the design of effective labor market policies.
The conference will also host the 6th user conference of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), bringing together researchers who work with the data provided by the FDZ, and facilitating exchange between researchers and FDZ staff.
Sustainable growth in the EU: enhancing productivity growth while respecting the planetary boundaries
In the light of global megatrends such as ageing, globalisation, technological transformation and climate change, the 2019 ESDE is dedicated to sustainability.
One of the major sustainability challenges is sluggish productivity growth despite accelerating technological change and the increasing qualification levels of the EU labour force. We explore the preconditions for sustained economic growth, based on region-level and firm-level data analysis, focusing on complementarities between efficiency, innovation, human capital, job quality, fairness and working conditions. We identify policies that could boost productivity without increasing inequality.
We examine the impact of climate action on the economy and on employment, income and skills. In the light of EU welfare losses from climate inaction, we examine the sectors in which employment and value generation are taking place in the EU economy, estimate the overall impact of climate action in EU Member States, following a full implementation of the Paris agreement, on GDP and employment, as well as its potential impact on job polarisation.
Our main conclusion is that tackling climate change and preserving growth go hand in hand. We highlight a number of policy options to preserve the EU's competitiveness, sustain growth and spread its benefits to the entire EU population, while pursuing an ambitious transition to a climate-neutral economy.
What is the Value Added by Using Causal Machine Learning Methods in a Welfare Experiment Evaluation?
Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut’s Jobs First welfare experiment. This experiment entails a mix of positive and negative work incentives. Previous studies show that it is hard to tackle the effect heterogeneity of Jobs First by means of CATEs. I report evidence that CML methods can provide support for the theoretical labor supply predictions. Furthermore, I document reasons why some conventional CATE estimators fail and discuss the limitations of CML methods.
Different Paths to Success – Habitus, Career-patterns and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
Starting with a comparison between the life-course approach and Bourdieu, the study focuses the relation between social origin and habitus on typical patterns of education- and employment trajectories. Therefore, it tries to provide a test of the social reproduction theory of Pierre Bourdieu using a subsample of longitudinal data from the adult cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Theoretically, we assume that the social class of one’s origin-family defines the process of socialization and hence the habitus of its members and is cumulative predictive for the generalizable patterns of educational- and employment sequences starting with school entry up to age 30. The individual or class-specific habitus as a “whole set of practices (or those of a whole set of agents produced by similar conditions)” (Bourdieu 1984:170) should hence correspond to differences in successful sequence-patterns, measured personality-traits and attitudes suggesting a stable class-specific realization of the habitus.
The Effect of Response Measures in Business Surveys
Often asked questions concerning business surveys are:
- What will be the increase in response rates if we apply such-and-such measure(s)?
- What would be perfect timing for these measures? And,
- What will be the costs?
Basically these questions ask for an efficient strategy to get response, aiming for a cost-efficient survey design both for the survey organisation (like a National Statistical Institute) and businesses alike, not burdening and chasing businesses too much. The effects of measures to get response for business surveys have not been studied systematically as much as for social surveys. Obvious reasons for this may be the fact that business surveys are mandatory by law, and the costs involved in getting response are not as
high as for social surveys using CAPI or CATI. Nowadays however, with ever decreasing budgets, and the pressure to reduce response burden even more efficient business surveys designs are required. An overview of various measures has been presented by Snijkers et al. (2013), but quantitative information to answer the above mentioned questions was to a large extend still lacking. In a study conducted at Statistics Netherlands (Snijkers et al., 2018) the effects of various measures to get response have been analysed for a number of business surveys, without doing an experiment. These measures include the obvious measures, like sending advance letters to
businesses introducing the survey and soliciting survey response, sending pre-due data reminders, and after the due date sending one or more reminder letters. For one survey (the Survey on International Trade in Goods) we modelled the effects of these measures using survival analysis, to find out what would have happened without any of these measures. At the
lecture the results will be presented.
The Local Environment Shapes Refugee Integration: Evidence from Post-war Germany
Almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how regional conditions affected their economic, social and political integration. We first document large cross-regional differences in integration outcomes. We then show that high inflows of migrants and a large agrarian base hampered integration. Religious differences between migrants and natives had no effect on economic integration. Yet, they decreased intermarriage rates and strengthened anti-migrant parties. Based on our estimates, we simulate the regional distribution of migrants that maximizes their labor force participation. Inner-German migration in the 1950s brought the actual distribution closer to its optimum.