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Title: Occupational Mobility Across Years, Decades and a Century

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: In this paper I document occupational mobility comparing the experiences of cohorts living one century apart: those captured in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1968 to 2000 and a longitudinal census sample of individuals observed between 1880 and 1930. Considering different levels of aggregation with respect to occupations, as wellas different definitions of what an occupation is, I uncover several facts which are remarkably stable in time: (i) occupational mobility is higher for younger workers, (ii) it is closely related to geographical mobility and (iii) over the life-cycle, individuals tend towards occupations with high cognitive, non-routine taskrequirements and away from manual-heavy tasks. A major difference between cohorts is the fate of geographical movers: for the 1880 cohort, interstate migrants were characterized with worse occupational outcomes than stayers, while the opposite is true for the 1968 cohort; additionally, the data shows that routine occupations are more prominent for the 1968 cohort.

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Authors: Choi, Sekyu

Conference Name: SED 2014

Publisher Location: Toronto, Canada

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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