The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Capital Reallocation

scholarly journals Human capital accumulation of rural female migrants and occupational mobility at destination area: A case study of Chonburi

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.10) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Soiboon Saithong ◽  
Dusadee Ayuwat ◽  
Oranutda Chinnasri
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Domestic Worker ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
Destination Area ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Level 2

Occupational mobility influences the social status of female migrants who have migrated from rural to urban areas. Occupational progression leads to social class mobility. The purpose of this research was to examine human capital accumulation and occupational mobility among female migrants in the destination area. Using qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 female migrants from the rural Northeast of Thailand to Chonburi Province and with 6 key informants between October 2015 to January 2016. The data were analyzed by analytic description. The findings indicated that the female migrants from the rural Northeast of Thailand relied on multiple ways of accumulating human capital for occupational mobility, namely: 1) learning on the job, resulting in an advancement from working as a cook’s assistant, waitress, or assembly line worker (Level 1 skills) to working as a tourist guide, noodle vendor, or beauty parlor/general store operator (Level 2 skills);2) attending adult education, which led to occupational advancement from being a domestic worker (Level 1 skills) to an accountant in a private company (Level 2 skills);3) studying at a formal educational institution, which helped a domestic worker to assume a position as a clerk at a state agency (Level 2 skills);4) vocational short course training, which led in occupational advancement from being an assembly line worker to opening a sewing shop (Level 2 skills). In conclusion, the findings indicated that these female migrant’s way of human capital accumulation influenced their occupational mobility, but it also depended on their personal characteristics. 

Ethnic penalty and occupational mobility in the Italian labour market

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1093-1116
Author(s):  
Maurizio Avola ◽  
Giorgio Piccitto
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Ethnic Network ◽  
Assimilation Process ◽  
Career Research

The article examines the occupational mobility of immigrants in Italy in a double perspective. First, this work compares immigrants and natives in order to understand whether, and to what extent, in a country characterized overall by low social mobility, natives and migrants have the same chances for improving their social position, or the latter are disadvantaged on an ethnic basis that affects their career (research question 1). Then, the article investigates what are the factors (referring to immigrants’ human capital, socio-cultural assimilation process and ethnic network) fostering occupational mobility among immigrants (research question 2). We conduct an ordinary least squares analysis on microdata from two retrospective cross-sectional surveys, for natives and migrants, with the same sample design, questionnaire structure and variable classification, thereby allowing the comparison of results. The empirical findings confirm that intra-generational occupational mobility in Italy is overall very limited but that geographical origin is a significant factor influencing upward mobility. Thus, the existence of an ethnic penalty is confirmed. Furthermore, among migrants, high human capital improves (short-range) upward mobility, while the socio-cultural assimilation process only partly leads to economic assimilation. Conversely, the recourse to the ethnic network acts as a trap in low-qualified occupational careers, hindering an improvement of socio-economic position.

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