Assessing Labour Market Mobility in Europe

Maria Symeonaki () and Glykeria Stamatopoulou ()
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Maria Symeonaki: Panteion University, Department of Social Policy
Glykeria Stamatopoulou: Panteion University, Department of Social Policy

Chapter Chapter 27 in Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures, 2020, pp 409-417 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The present paper estimates a labour market mobility index, that aims at capturing not only the extend of labour market mobility of individuals, but also the quality of their transitions. More specifically, the index used considers only ‘positive’ transitions, while commonly used mobility indices, take into account either the probability of remaining in the same state or all transition probabilities between states. The proposed methodology is illustrated for the case of young individuals aged between 15 and 29, for the latest at the time available data of the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), i.e. the year 2016. The analysis reveals that in southern European countries, such as Italy, Greece and Spain, and in some post-socialist countries considered as ‘developing’ regarding their welfare state, like Croatia and Bulgaria, the positive labour market mobility index exhibits the smallest values. On the contrary, in countries characterised by advanced welfare regimes, like Luxembourg, Sweden and Denmark, the values of the index are the highest.

Keywords: Mobility index; Labour market transitions; Labour fluidity; EU-LFS; Positive mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6_27

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