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Occupational mobility is one of the hotspots in academic research. The construction worker’s occupational mobility is the key element of affecting the healthy and sustainable development of construction industry in China. Based on domestic and foreign occupational mobility literature, this paper analyze the regional distribution, classic literatures and hotspots about construction worker’s occupational mobility, by Citation Network, Keyword Co-Occurrence and other bibliometrics and qualitative tools. It sort out systematically the development skeleton so that we can grasp the future research directions of occupational mobility. Moreover, it will be important for solving the problem of construction worker’s occupational mobility.

The Chinese construction industry is characterised by the frequent job changes of lower-level workers, which has been identified as one of the principal causes of poor performance, quality and safety accidents, and high technology loss in the construction industry. Assuming that each party has incomplete market information about the other, we can thus define a dynamic game relationship between employers' incentives to retain workers and workers' mobility behaviour. By using evolutionary game theory, in this study we analyse various conditional evolutionary stable strategies and explore how employer behaviour influences the mobility of the workers in this industry in China. The results show that under the prevailing employment model, construction workers are bound to change jobs regardless of whether their employers adopt incentives to retain them or not. This finding suggests that the government, as the market regulator, should reform its employment model to ensure that construction workers switch jobs in an orderly and rational manner.