Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: An exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data

Avent-Holt, Dustin; Henriksen, Lasse Folke; Hägglund, Anna Erika; Jung, Jiwook; Kodama, Naomi; Melzer, Silvia Maja; Mun, Eunmi; Rainey, Anthony; Tomaskovic‐Devey, Donald

doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2019.100456

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“…Occupation is a key concept in the social sciences. Its use in explaining the forms and levels of inequality spans over more than a millennium, starting with the early works of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx and continuing to the recent debates about the relationships between occupations and various dimensions of inequality (Avent-Holt et al 2019;Oesch and Piccitto 2019). Despite some claims regarding a perceived marginalization of occupation in understanding life chances and positions within societies in the past decades (Kim et al 2018;Beck et al 1992), occupations and their characteristics persisted as the basis for explaining very diverse dimensions of inequality.…”

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Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Haupt

Ebner

2020

Köln Z Soziol

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People’s occupations are strongly related to multiple dimensions of inequality, such as inequalities in wages, health, autonomy, or risk of temporary employment. The theories and mechanisms linking occupations to these inequalities are subject to debate. We review the recent evidence on the relationship between occupations and inequality and discuss the following four overarching theoretical perspectives: occupations and skills, occupations and tasks, occupations and institutions, and occupations and culture. We show that each perspective has strong implications for how scholars conceptualize occupations and which occupational characteristics are seen as relevant when explaining inequalities. Building on this, we review and critically examine the relevant theories related to and the mechanisms of the relationship between occupation and wage inequality, as an example. We conclude that there is sound empirical knowledge available on the relationships between occupations and inequality; however, some of the mechanisms are still unclear.

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Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Haupt

Ebner

2020

Köln Z Soziol

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“…The measurement of occupational skill as income percentile is not tautological. Only a third of individual earnings variance in Germany is between occupations [31] and the conversion to percentiles further reduces the association with individual earnings. Economy wide between workplace variance in occupational skill is predicted to rise (H3a), while occupational skill levels are hypothesized to be associated with higher (between workplaces) and increasing (within workplace) wage levels (H3c).…”

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The organizational production of earnings inequalities, Germany 1995–2010

Tomaskovic‐Devey

Melzer

2020

PLoS ONE

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Germany has experienced sharply rising earnings inequalities, both between and within workplaces. Working from prior literature on rising employment dualization and the fissuring of workplaces into high and low wage employers, we explore a set of organizational explanations for rising between and within workplace inequality focusing on the role of employment dualization, skill segregation/complexity, and firm fissuring. We describe and model these hypothesized processes with administrative data on a large random sample panel of German workplaces. We find that rising inequalities are associated with polarization in industrial wage rates and the birth of new low wage workplaces, as well as increased establishment skill specialization and the growth of part-time jobs in workplace divisions of labor. We conclude with recommendations for future research that directly examines more proximate mechanisms and their relative importance in different institutional contexts.

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“…El autor sostiene que incorporar estas diferencias permitirá una mejor explicación de la distribución de ingresos. Por otro lado, tanto Avent-Holt et al (2019) como Kunst, Freeman y Oostendorp (2020) coinciden en que las ocupaciones son determinantes clave en la varianza salarial y las conectan necesariamente con las tareas laborales.…”

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Desigualdad salarial en Argentina. Una interpretación con base en calificaciones ocupacionales

Gómez

2020

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En este artículo nos proponemos examinar qué rol jugaron las calificaciones de los trabajadores en la desigualdad salarial argentina, considerando un marco analítico que las define no sólo a través de la educación sino principalmente por medio de la dimensión ocupacional, tanto para el total de los asalariados como para cada género en particular. Utilizamos para ello la técnica de regresión por cuantiles sobre ecuaciones de ingreso para los años 2004, 2009 y 2014. Los resultados revelan una caída en las brechas entre premios por calificación, combinada con menores niveles de desigualdad hacia dentro de dichas categorías. Esto encuentra su correlato con un descenso en los retornos a la educación en niveles salariales más altos. Ambos efectos combinados confirman la hipótesis de que las calificaciones laborales están directamente asociadas a la desigualdad salarial, y muestran que en este período se logra una mitigación de las desigualdades en el mercado asalariado gracias a una mejor posición relativa de los trabajadores con calificación operativa, en relación a los técnicos y profesionales.

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Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: An exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data

Cited by 32 publications

References 52 publications

Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

The organizational production of earnings inequalities, Germany 1995–2010

Desigualdad salarial en Argentina. Una interpretación con base en calificaciones ocupacionales

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