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Title: Broken Ladders or Boundaryless Careers? Job Instability and Worker Well Being
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Fuller, Sylvia |
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Broken Ladders or Boundaryless Careers? Job Instability and Worker Well Being Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers: The State University Of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2004. DAI-A 65/06, p. 2383, Dec 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Human Capital; Job Turnover; Layoffs; Modeling, Multilevel; Quits Since the 1980s, job stability for American workers has been falling as employers pursue increased flexibility in employment systems. Traditionally vulnerable groups such as young workers and blacks have experienced the largest increase in instability, but even hitherto stable workers such as older managers and professionals have been affected. This dissertation investigates the economic consequences of employment instability for workers by analyzing longitudinal work history data from the 1979 to 2000 waves of the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with multi-level regression techniques. The study found that working for more employers for shorter periods was generally harmful. However, the penalties of job instability varied according to the pattern of job change, individual characteristics, social location, and work context. Different groups of workers varied both in their overall level of job mobility and in the relative proportion of job changes of different types (layoffs, discharges, quits for family reasons and quits for economic reasons) they tended to undergo, and this had clear economic consequences. However, analyses also revealed that these consequences were themselves mediated by social location and social context, albeit in ways that often differed significantly for men and women. The dissertation concludes that such variation challenges dominant approaches to studying workplace restructuring that focus on average effects. Instead, the dissertation argues for an approach that is sensitive to differences in how new patterns of employment are experienced. In so doing, it draws from and further develops insights from a variety of theoretical traditions including human capital and job mobility approaches from economics, sociological work on how social, economic, and cultural frameworks shape labor market processes, and feminist research on the links between changing employment relationships and sex/gender inequalities both inside and outside of the labor market. |
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Fuller, Sylvia. Broken Ladders or Boundaryless Careers? Job Instability and Worker Well Being. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers: The State University Of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2004. DAI-A 65/06, p. 2383, Dec 2004. |