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In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in Germany and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital, segmented labor market, and discrimination theories. To assess the separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages, we conceptualize the process of earnings attainment as occurring in three stages: initial occupational achievement, final occupational achievement after the accumulation of experience, and, contingent on the former, final earnings attainment. Our analysis of data from the German Socioeconomic Panel suggests a high degree of initial occupational segmentation, with mmigrants being less able to translate their human capital into a good first job than natives. We also find that immigrants experienced significant discrimination in the process of occupational attainment, yielding little job mobility over time, and a widening of the status g...

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- Demography, Human Capital, Internal migration, Vocational Training
- by Javier Herrera
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- Sociology, Peru, Panel Data, Dynamic Analysis
- by noe mano
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- Design practice, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy
- by Daniel Feldman
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- Psychology, Business and Management, Job Mobility, Occupational

We apply social network analysis methods to describe the evolution of the innovator network of Jena, Germany in the period from 1995 to 2001. We find this evolution to be directed towards an increasing focus on core competencies of the local innovation system. Further we analyze the network resulting from R&D cooperations and explain - by means of network regression

- by Holger Graf
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- Policy, Business and Management, Job Mobility, Core Competencies

El viaje por motivo de trabajo ha sido uno de los temas con mayor desarrollo dentro de los estudios de la movilidad (comuting) y su relación con los usos de suelo (spatial mismatch). Recurrentemente
es utilizado como un elemento de diagnóstico sobre la estructura urbana, los procesos de crecimiento y sus consecuencias en el desarrollo de las actividades diarias de la población. Sin
embargo, dichos estudios espaciales carecen de la mirada del individuo que experimenta dichos
viajes, y cuáles son las problemáticas que él reconoce en su cotidianeidad. El objetivo propuesto para este trabajo intenta superar la dicotomía entre estudios espaciales y estudios de la experiencia, y para ello se enmarca en los desarrollos integrales de comprensión socio-espacial de la movilidad. La investigación busca problematizar la movilidad al trabajo a partir de una doble perspectiva de abordaje: la macro en relación a la visión de la ciudad, a partir del análisis de
encuestas; y la micro en relación a la experiencia del individuo, a partir del análisis de entrevistas semi-estructuradas. El estudio toma como caso el Centro Administrativo Gubernamental (CAG), considerado un atractor de viaje por trabajo característico de la ciudad de La Plata. Al convocar diariamente gran cantidad de empleados de diferentes sectores del partido, el estudio de dicho atractor posibilita un análisis de la diversidad de situaciones de accesibilidad y conectividad en la ciudad de La Plata, a partir de un abordaje integrado de dimensiones espaciales, sociales, económicas y vivenciales.

- by Ma Luciana Giglio
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- Urban mobility, Metodologia De La Investigacion, Job Mobility, Entrevistas
- by Urban Lindgren and +1
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- Human Geography, Urban And Regional Planning, Applied Economics, Labour Market
- by Solomon Polachek
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- Political Science, Economic Theory, Human Capital, Labor Market
- by Maarten van Ham
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- Employment, Social Mobility, Job Mobility, Job-Related Mobility
- by Klaus Zimmermann
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- Panel Data, Job Mobility
- by Samuel Todd
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- Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology
- by Koen Dewettinck
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- Sociology, Career Development, Business and Management, Design Methodology

One question facing professional football (soccer) players in today’s highly mobile football labor market is how to move between teams and develop boundaryless careers that positively signal their qualities, skills, and value to the market. This study departs from previous research which conceptualized market values as a function of performance and human capital factors at one point in time. Instead, this study argues that market observers face imperfect information when estimating the value of players, which they overcome by using job mobility as a signal for the qualities, skills, and playing potential of footballers. Analyzing a unique longitudinal dataset of 1,670 professional player careers with fixed effects panel regressions, results indicate that upward mobility is a positive signal shifting observers’ estimations of player market values up and downward mobility is a negative signal pushing market values down. Each extra move up leads to an additional increase in market values and the negative impact of downward mobility decreases when players take up more important roles in their new team. The impact of mobility on player market values is thus contingent on broader career patterns and the context in which job mobility takes place.

- by Thijs Velema
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- Job Mobility, Professional Football, Boundaryless Careers
- by Seamus McGuinness and +1
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- Job Satisfaction, Papers, Labour Market, Job Mobility
- by Dirk Buyens
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- Career Development, Business and Management, Design Methodology, Job Mobility

Between 1990 and 1992 in Slovenia, recipients of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits tended to remain (formally) unemployed until their benefits expired, before raking a job. Institutional set-up suggests, and labor surveys show, that... more

- by Milan Vodopivec
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- Economic Theory, Social Protection, Economic policy, Public Health

We investigate the returns to promotions and separations from firms using Portuguese linked employer-employee data. More than 90% of the total variation in wages can be ex- plained by observed and unobserved characteristics of workers and firms. Taken together, worker and firm unobserved effects explain more than half of the variation of wages for all types of job mobility. Our results suggest that promoted workers are high wage workers in high wage firms. Movers are inherently lower wage workers, in lower wage firms. However, on average, workers that find a new job within one year enter firms that pay higher wages. This is not true for workers that take more than a year to find a new job.

- by Priscila Ferreira
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- Economics, Labor Economics, Micro-econometrics, Job Mobility

Despite the theoretical importance of intragenerational mobility and its connection to intergenerational mobility, no study since the 1970s has documented trends in intragenerational occupational mobility. The present article fills this intellectual gap by presenting evidence of an increasing trend in intragenerational mobility in the United States from 1969 to 2011. We decompose the trend using a nested occupational classification scheme that distinguishes between disaggregated micro-classes and progressively more aggregated meso-classes, macro-classes, and manual and nonmanual sectors. Log-linear analysis reveals that mobility increased across the occupational structure at nearly all levels of aggregation, especially after the early 1990s. Controlling for structural changes in occupational distributions modifies, but does not substantially alter, these findings. Trends are qualitatively similar for men and women. We connect increasing mobility to other macro-economic trends dating back to the 1970s, including changing labor force composition, technologies, employment relations, and industrial structures. We reassert the sociological significance of intragenerational mobility and discuss how increasing variability in occupational transitions within careers may counteract or mask trends in intergenerational mobility, across occupations and across more broadly construed social classes.

- by Xi Song
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- Occupation, Intergenerational mobility, Job Mobility, Intragenerational Mobility

Presentation of the Adult Apprenticeship Pilot Programme in the framework of the Reactivate Programme

Overeducation-the situation in which an individual has more schooling than is needed to do one's job-has been researched extensively for nearly three decades, but some major issues in regard to it are still topics of ongoing debate. By using a panel data, that combines a survey of two cohorts of Israeli first-degree holders and data from administrative sources on jobs and wages, we examine the contribution of job turnover, cognitive abilities and continuing graduate studies to the likelihood of overeducation and wage dynamics. The study produces four main findings. First, rapid job-switching makes a negative contribution to the increase in employee's wage and there is a negative correlation between two variables-an employee's tenure and the number of past employers in the years after the completion of degree studies-and the probability of being overeducated. Second, the contribution of the individual's cognitive abilities and quantitative reasoning skills to the likelihood of becoming overeducated is negative. Third, the wages of overeducated employees are some 11 percent lower and rise more slowly than the wages of those whose level of schooling corresponds to their jobs; this outcome may be interpreted as indicating that the "scars" of being overeducated tend to be long-lasting. Fourth, the overeducated workers have lower propensity to continue to advanced academic studies.

- by Aviad Tur-Sinai
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- Higher Education, Job Mobility, Earnings
- by giuseppe Tattara
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- Job Flows, Labour Market, Search and Matching, Job Mobility
- by Fatih Karahan
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- Economics, Life Cycle, Job Mobility, Economic Dynamics
- by Heather Hofmeister and +1
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- Sociology, Welfare State, Industrial Relations, Path Dependence
- by Pablo Acosta
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- Labour Economics, Applied Economics, Job Mobility
- by B. Herz and +1
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- Wage bargaining, Job Mobility
- by Guillaume Haeringer
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- Economic Theory, Job Mobility, Ministry of Education, Boolean Satisfiability
- by Anette Eva Fasang and +1
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- Sociology, Social Policy, Welfare State, Job Satisfaction

This paper identities and compares the determinants of within- and between-firm job mobility in Portugal. Estimates are based on models that distinguish promotions by whether or not they involve a change in the tasks performed, and separations by the time workers take to enter a new firm. Both worker and firm observed characteristics emerge as important factors in the analysis. Firm unobserved heterogeneity is relevant, evidence suggests that firms vary more in their unobserved propensity to promote than in the case of separations. Overall, this study highlights two main issues; the role of firms in the process of job mobility, and the importance of distinguishing not only between types of separations from firms, but also between types of promotions within firms.

- by Priscila Ferreira
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- Business, Economics, Labor Economics, Micro-econometrics
- by Ruud Muffels
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- Economics, Panel Data, Working Time, Labour Market

This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic programming model of optimal educational financing decisions. The main purpose of the paper is to measure the effect of short-term parental cash transfers, received during school, on educational borrowing and in-school work decisions, and on post-graduation lifetime earnings. The estimated parameters of the model imply that parental cash transfers do not significantly influence post-graduation lifetime earnings. Long-term factors such as family background and prior human capital investments are more important. Parental cash transfers do, however, significantly determine the decision to borrow or work during school and the level of lifetime consumption.

- by Robert M Sauer
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- Labor Economics, Education, Lawyers, Dynamic programming

Prepared for the Research Agenda Setting Conference held at the University of Michigan, July 8-10, 2001. We thank Catherine McLaughlin, Hilary Hoynes, Tom Buchmueller, and conference participants for helpful comments. Financial support... more

- by Brigitte Madrian
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- Health insurance, Developing Country, Job Mobility, Low Income

In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital and segmented labor market theories. To assess the separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize the process of earnings attainment as occurring in three stages: initial occupational achievement, final occupational achievement after the accumulation of experience, and contingent on the former, final earnings attainment. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, our results indicate a high degree of initial occupational segmentation, with immigrants being less able to translate their human capital into a good first job and being channeled into first occupations of significantly lower status than natives. We also developed evidence to suggest that immigrants experienced significant discrimination in the process of oc...

- by Amelie F Constant and +1
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- Demography, Human Capital, Internal migration, Vocational Training

The main goal of this paper is to analyze theoretical and empirical links between job-tenure and short-term mobility wage gains (MWG, the difference between the first wage in the new job and the last wage in previous position). Standard theoretical approaches examining this sub- ject (search theory, job-matching and on-the-job training models) predict a negative correlation for those variables. Furthermore,

- by Demian Panigo
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- Applied Research, Panel Data, Job Matching, Search Theory

- by Priscila Ferreira
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- Business, Economics, Labor Economics, Micro-econometrics
- by Pierre Koning
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- Catalysis, Urban Economics, Urban And Regional Planning, Applied Economics
- by Uwe Cantner
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- Policy, Business and Management, Job Mobility, Core Competencies
- by Melinda Mills
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- Sociology, Welfare State, Industrial Relations, Path Dependence
- by Vincent Hildebrand
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- Program Evaluation, Tax reform, Panel Data, Policy Change
- by Denis Fougère
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- United States, Job Mobility, State dependence
- by Jos Van Ommeren
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- Human Geography, Regional Science, Urban And Regional Planning, Applied Economics
- by Vickie Gallagher
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- Psychology, Job Satisfaction, Managerial Psychology, Employee Turnover
- by Richard Disney
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- Public Finance, Social Security, United Kingdom, Developing Country
- by Ruud Muffels
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- Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Life history

Work-related multi-local living arrangements describe those living arrangements in which, due to occupational reasons, at least one partner is absent from the communal residence of the partners or the family for a substantial part of the year. In the context of high requirements concerning spatial flexibility of employees, such living arrangements have become increasingly important. Against this background, this paper examines the acceptance of spatial distance in intimate relationships. Analyses are based on panel data of the “Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe” study (2007 and 2010/11), collected in Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland (N=1.189). We used path modelling to conduct a cross-lagged panel analysis. Results show a higher acceptance of spatial distance in intimate relationships in individuals living multi-locally due to work-related spatial mobility requirements. Longitudinal analyses suggest that this correlation is primarily based on adaptation processes. Experiences of multi-local living arrangements lead to attitude changes towards a higher acceptance of spatial distance. However, further selection processes could not be detected, which might partially be explained by a high degree of selectivity at the first point of data collection.

- by Kelly Sorensen
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- Psychology, Personality, Theory, Business and Management

Today, the general stipulation to be mobile in location and flexible with time includes in addition for many the readiness to accept a job where one is often on the road (on-the-job mobility). While the number of these mobile jobs is increasing, we investigated on-the-job mobility readiness (OMR) in employed and also unemployed people along with its respective demographic, social

- by Kathleen Otto
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- Marketing, Psychology, Social Anxiety, Human Resource Management