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Author: Scott, Marc M.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Bernhardt, Annette
Morris, Martina
Handcock, Mark S.
Scott, Marc M.
Work and Opportunity in the Post-Industrial Labor Market
Final report to the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations. Institute on Education and the Economy, Columbia University, New York NY, 1997.
Also: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/~iee/Labor1.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Mobility; Mobility, Job; Mobility, Labor Market; Wage Equations; Wage Gap

One of the most pressing questions facing researchers and policy makers today is how economic restructuring has affected the nature of work and mobility in America. It is no longer simply a matter of rising wage inequality, but increasingly a question of what it means to have a job and to build a career. As workplaces are reorganized, there are potentially strong effects on job stability, career development, and upward mobility. Little is known about the long-term consequences of restructuring, so in this study we compare the first 16 years of work experience for two cohorts of young white men from the National Longitudinal Surveys: the original cohort, followed from 1966-1981, and the recent cohort, followed from 1979-1994. Conclusions and Findings.
Bibliography Citation
Bernhardt, Annette, Martina Morris, Mark S. Handcock and Marc M. Scott. "Work and Opportunity in the Post-Industrial Labor Market." Final report to the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations. Institute on Education and the Economy, Columbia University, New York NY, 1997.
2. Scott, Marc M.
Glauber, Rebecca
Mapping Careers in the Low-Wage Labor Market
Presented: San Diego, CA, Industrial Relations and Research Association Meetings, January 2004
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Industrial Relations Research Association ==> LERA
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Educational Attainment; Exits; Labor Market Outcomes; Skills; Training; Wages, Youth

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Using over twenty years of data on the careers of young workers represented in the NLSY, we identify workers who are stuck in low-wage, dead-end jobs over the long run. We contrast these career paths to the careers of individuals with similar backgrounds and skills who managed to secure careers with more growth potential. We characterize these more and less successful trajectories in terms of the sequencing of industries and occupations over time. We then attempt to classify or cluster similar career paths, where similarity is judged primarily on the patterning of industry and occupation over time. Other factors that will be used to characterize these histories include the amount of job changing, unemployment, and exits from the labor force each path contains, as well as educational attainment and training. This analysis will provide us, for the first time, with a concrete mapping of typical career paths in the low-wage labor market, a much needed starting point for informed policy discussion around building career ladders ?Mapping Careers in the Low-Wage Labor Market?
Bibliography Citation
Scott, Marc M. and Rebecca Glauber. "Mapping Careers in the Low-Wage Labor Market." Presented: San Diego, CA, Industrial Relations and Research Association Meetings, January 2004.