Occupational Mobility Across Years, Decades and a Century

Sekyu Choi
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Sekyu Choi: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

No 1154, 2014 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

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 well as 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 task requirements 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.

Date: 2014
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