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James A Schmitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Thomas Zwick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • consequences of seniority wages on the Employment Structure
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Thomas Zwick
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    The author examines seniority wage profiles in German establishments to discern hiring patterns with respect to age and sex. Using the country’s linked employer-employee dataset (LIAB) over the period 1997-2004 and calculating establishment seniority wage profiles directly from individual seniority wages, he finds that establishments with steeper seniority wage profiles than the average establishment in their sector can keep their employees longer but hire fewer older employees. In addition, these firms prefer to hire employees with little experience in other firms and young men instead of young women. These findings imply at least two things: first, that establishments with internal labor markets use deferred payment as an incentive and give positions requiring long tenure to internal candidates and second, that such establishments offer fewer opportunities for unemployed or establishment switchers as well as young females and those with long previous experience in other firms.

  • consequences of seniority wages on the Employment Structure
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012
    Co-Authors: Thomas Zwick
    Abstract:

    The author examines seniority wage profiles in German establishments to discern hiring patterns with respect to age and sex. Using the country's linked employer-employee dataset (LIAB) over the per...

Daniel Oesch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • is Employment polarisation inevitable occupational change in ireland and switzerland 1970 2010
    Work Employment & Society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Emily Murphy, Daniel Oesch
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    The routinisation thesis expects technology to hollow out the middle of the Employment Structure, leading to a uniform pattern of polarisation across affluent countries. This article argues that oc...

  • Is Employment Polarisation Inevitable? Occupational Change in Ireland and Switzerland, 1970–2010
    Work Employment and Society, 2017
    Co-Authors: Emily C Murphy, Daniel Oesch
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    The routinisation thesis expects technology to hollow out the middle of the Employment Structure, leading to a uniform pattern of polarisation across affluent countries. This article argues that occupational change is also shaped by labour supply – particularly education and immigration – and institutions. Polarisation therefore represents just one scenario of occupational change. Our study of Ireland and Switzerland examines long-term change in the Employment Structure (1970–2010), using census data and an encompassing definition of the labour force. Results show no simple trend of occupational upgrading morphing into polarisation. Occupational upgrading occurred in both countries, with the largest Employment gains in high-paid occupations and the largest losses in low-paid ones. Patterns of occupational change largely aligned with the evolution of labour supply, upgrading in the 1990s and 2000s being driven in both countries by higher educated women. Immigration supplied labour for low-end and mid-level jobs in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, and for low-paid occupations in Switzerland during the 1980s.

  • occupational Structure and labor market change in western europe since 1990
    2015
    Co-Authors: Daniel Oesch
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    Observers of social change have been fascinated for a long time by the question of how the Employment Structure evolves: toward good jobs, bad jobs, or increasing polarization? Three issues are at stake. At the microlevel of single jobs, the concern is with the quality of new Employment created. The question raised is to know whether jobs are becoming better paid, more highly skilled, and endowed with greater autonomy. At the macrolevel of social Structure, the debate evolves around the question whether occupational change transforms affluent countries into large middle-class societies or, on the contrary, into increasingly divided class societies. The two levels of analysis are bridged by the concern for social mobility. Here, the question is as to whether change in the Employment Structure allows forthcoming generations to move to more rewarding jobs than those held by their parents – or whether downward mobility is the more likely outcome. The direction of change has then manifest implications for parties' electoral constituencies and citizens' political preferences. This chapter strives to shed light on some of these issues by analyzing the pattern of occupational change in Western Europe since 1990. It does so by examining the evolution of the Employment Structure with large-scale microlevel data for Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. The central question is to know what kind of occupations have been expanding and declining over the last two decades: high-paid jobs, low-paid jobs, or both? Our analysis shows that the five countries under study underwent a process of major occupational upgrading. The only ambiguity concerns the question whether the process is clear-cut or has a polarizing twist to it. The labor market created ample opportunities at the high-skilled end of the occupational Structure but made perspectives bleak in the lower-middle range of jobs held by clerks and production workers.

  • welfare regimes and change in the Employment Structure britain denmark and germany since 1990
    Journal of European Social Policy, 2015
    Co-Authors: Daniel Oesch
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    Welfare states are often reduced to their role as providers of social protection and redistribution. In 1990, Esping-Andersen argued that they also affect Employment creation and the class Structure. We analyse the stratification outcomes for three welfare regimes – Britain, Germany and Denmark – over the 1990s and 2000s. Based on individual-level surveys, we observe a disproportionate increase among professionals and managers, and a decline among production workers and clerks. The result is clear-cut occupational upgrading in Denmark and Germany. In Britain, high and low-end service jobs expanded, resulting in a polarized version of upgrading. Growth in low-end service jobs – and thus polarization – is no precondition for full Employment. Both Britain and Denmark halved their low-educated unEmployment rate between 1995 and 2008. Yet low-end service jobs expanded only in Britain, not in Denmark. The cause is the evolution of labour supply: rising educational attainment means that fewer low-educated worker...

  • occupational change in europe how technology and education transform the job Structure
    2013
    Co-Authors: Daniel Oesch
    Abstract:

    What types of jobs are growing: well-paid managerial jobs or low-paid auxiliary jobs, high-end professional jobs or bottom-end service jobs? Can occupational change transform affluent countries into enlarged middle-class societies? Or, on the contrary, are we heading towards a future of increasingly divided class societies? Do changes in the Employment Structure allow forthcoming generations to move towards more rewarding jobs than those held by their parents - or is downward mobility the more likely outcome? This book throws new light on these timely questions by drawing on extensive evidence of Employment data on the pattern of occupational change in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland since 1990. It documents the change in the Employment Structure, and examines the five underlying driving forces: technology, globalization, education, migration, and institutions. The book discusses whether governments really have no other choice than either occupational upgrading with soaring unEmployment or full Employment with expanding low-end jobs. The book gives a clear picture of the future of work, skills, and Employment in today's Europe, contributing to the debate in economic sociology and labour economics.

Shuhong Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • can Employment Structure promote environment biased technical progress
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016
    Co-Authors: Malin Song, Shuhong Wang
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    Abstract Environment-biased technical progress can stimulate improvement in environmental quality, leading to coordinated development between the economy and the environment. However, the existing literature scarcely refers to the factors influencing the technical progress bias. We use the overlapping generations model to realize the endogenesis of biased technical progress in the Chinese context. We show that an increase in the aging population will encourage the use of pollution-biased technology and focus the attention of enterprises on improving economic benefits rather than environmental quality. We measure the directions of technical progress during 2003 to 2013 and estimate regressions for the relevant indicators of the labor force Employment Structure. Under equilibrium, increased ratios of the aging population and state-owned enterprises will stimulate environment-biased technical progress. Further, the effects of research and development and clustering of state-owned enterprises on environmental technology improvement are significant.

Timothy Dunne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.