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Title: Career Paths and Career Origins: The Effect of First Job Industry on the Attainments of Mature Men
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D'Amico, Ronald |
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Career Paths and Career Origins: The Effect of First Job Industry on the Attainments of Mature Men Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1981 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Industrial Classification; Occupations The fundamental contention of this paper is that the industrial environment encompassing a worker's career origin has pervasive and irrevocable effects on his subsequent career development. This is so even for workers who transfer to a new industrial setting. The linkages that exist between industries, internal labor markets, and career paths are explored. Empirically, it is demonstrated that industry of first job is a significant and strong predictor of earnings and occupational SEI for workers late in their careers. This finding holds despite controls for a number of relevant human capital and other such variables as current job industry, and with various alternate universe restrictions. The final sections of this paper explore the ways in which industries impact on careers. These processes are complex and not well specified by current models of industrial organization. In conclusion, it is argued that these results support the relevance of institutional environments in shaping career development, and that industry is an appropriate level of aggregation at which these processes can be studied. |
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D'Amico, Ronald. "Career Paths and Career Origins: The Effect of First Job Industry on the Attainments of Mature Men." Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1981. |