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Occupational Mobility and the Dual Economy: The Impact of Industrial Sectors and Three Human Capital Variables on the Movement of Young Women and Men Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 1983 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Dual Economic Theory; Gender Differences; Human Capital Theory; Industrial Sector; Mobility; Mobility, Occupational; Racial Differences This project examines the occupational mobility of young women and men in the United States. Past research in this area deals with how individual characteristics that workers bring to the marketplace affect this process. Recent empirical work shows the importance of economic structure in explaining the socioeconomic process individuals experience. This dissertation examines the effects of dual economy industrial sectors as well as human capital variables including social class background, educational attainment, and job training on occupational movement. Ten years of panel data from the NLS are used. Differences in the labor force compositions of core and periphery sectors are examined by performing two discriminant analyses. Log linear analysis is used to analyze mobility tables which show occupational and sectoral movement by sex. The human capital data are then added to the mobility tables and log linear analysis is used to examine the resulting mobility patterns. Expected sex differences in sectoral mobility only hold for workers in particular occupational categories. Predicted sex differences in occupational mobility and differences in occupational movement by sectoral mobility appear. Interactions between sex, sectoral mobility, and occupational mobility do not occur. Job training does not interact with occupational mobility. Hypothesized occupational moves only occur for those with a particular class background or educational attainment. Interactions between sectoral mobility and occupational mobility for each human capital analysis are similar to the initial analysis. Of the human capital variables, only education interacts jointly with occupational mobility and sectoral movement. |
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Lang, Sylvia W. Occupational Mobility and the Dual Economy: The Impact of Industrial Sectors and Three Human Capital Variables on the Movement of Young Women and Men. Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 1983. |