Occupational Change, Employer Change, and the Transferability of Skills

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Change ◽  
Employer Change

Migration and Economic Mobility: Wealth Accumulation and Occupational Change Among Antebellum Migrants and Persisters

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Herscovici
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Occupational Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century America

Research on nineteenth-century economic and social mobility has concentrated on occupational change among men who remained in the same community for ten or more years, although fewer than half of any community's residents persist that long. This article uses a data set created specifically to compare the experiences of men who migrated from Newburyport, Massachusetts in the mid-nineteenth century with those of men who persisted. It finds that blue-collar migrants were more successful than were their counterparts who did not move. The results suggest that previous studies may have considerably underestimated the extent of economic opportunity in nineteenth-century America.

scholarly journals Occupational change and wage inequality: European Jobs Monitor 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Predrag Bejakovic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Occupational Change

Industrial and occupational change and trade unions

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-220
Author(s):  
Brian Towers ◽  
John Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Occupational Change
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