Occupational mobility, employment transitions and job quality in Europe: The impact of the Great Recession

Martina Bisello, Vincenzo Maccarrone and Enrique Fernández-Macías
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Vincenzo Maccarrone: University College Dublin, Ireland
Enrique Fernández-Macías: European Commission Joint Research Centre, Spain

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, vol. 43, issue 2, 585-611

Abstract: This article investigates employment and occupational transitions that are behind structural changes in European labour markets before, during and after the Great Recession. The study introduces a new methodological approach for studying labour market flows considering the quality of the jobs from and into which the flows are taking place by differentiating them into wage quintiles. The analysis compares six European countries that are usually associated with different institutional clusters – France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It tracks the transitions of their working age populations into and out of inactivity, unemployment and employment (in five wage categories). The findings show the extent to which employment and occupational mobility patterns differ across European countries, resulting in very different outcomes in terms of employment opportunities and life chances. Results also suggest that the countries studied fall into three distinct categories based on the degree of occupational mobility characterising their economies.

Keywords: European Union; Great Recession; job quality; mobility; occupations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X20931936

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