Social status inconsistency and migration

Lee, Ji-youn; Toney, Michael B.; Berry, E. Helen

doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2008.10.001

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“…Due to the comparatively high residential mobility of individuals in the United States (see, e.g., Molloy et al, 2011), a thorough analysis of the status-related determinants of internal migration in the United States might constitute a worthwhile empirical exercise. Thereby, a distinction between the potential effects of relative occupational prestige and income may complement the work of Lee et al (2009). Another interesting avenue for future work would be to study the exact forces underlying our main finding.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Put differently, these measures effectively compound the possible effects of status-inconsistent wages and of status-inconsistent occupational prestige, both of which can originate in an education-occupation mismatch. Lee et al (2009) partly overcome this problem by adopting the inconsistency definition by Brown et al (1988), which incorporates the notion that an individual's occupation and income constitute two forms of compensation for his investment in education. Lee et al (2009, 36-37) refer to individuals with high education status but low occupational and income status as "under-rewarded inconsistents", and characterize individuals whose occupational prestige and/or income significantly exceeds the respective measure of individuals with comparable education as "over-rewarded inconsistents".…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Individuals with one typical and one atypical relationship between education and occupation/income are labeled "mixed inconsistents". The empirical findings of Lee et al (2009) suggest that under-rewarded individuals in the United States are more likely to migrate, while over-rewarded individuals are less likely to migrate compared to status consistent individuals. Thus, whereas Lee et al (2009) consider both the pecuniary dimension and the prestige dimension of occupational status (inconsistency), they do not, however, disentangle the associated effects in their empirical analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Low Occupational Prestige and Internal Migration in Germany

Neubecker

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. Abstract This paper assesses a recent prediction of the theoretical migration literature, according to which migration may be driven by a desire to avoid social humiliation arising from occupational stigma. To this end, we study the residential mobility of workers in occupations with relatively low prestige using data from the German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP). In order to capture low occupational prestige, we relate the prestige of a worker's current occupation to the average prestige of the occupations associated with the worker's vocational training.Our estimation results suggest a negative relationship between the incidence of low occupational prestige and the probability of internal migration in Germany and thus reject our working hypothesis. We discuss the role of specific migration costs and occupational cultures as possible explanations of this result. The absolute prestige level of a worker's occupation does not turn out to be a significant predictor of his propensity to migrate, whereas his absolute income level -but not his relativ...

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Low Occupational Prestige and Internal Migration in Germany

Neubecker

2013

SSRN Journal

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“…For instance, Buchel and van Ham (2003) showed that workers who are less able to migrate (such as married women) and work in smaller labor markets suffer increased risk of being over-educated for their jobs. Lee and colleagues (2009) also showed that migration did not uniformly improve occupational status; while in many cases status inconsistencies were reduced after migration, the analysis also reported considerable changes in the opposite direction. The limited body of research that examines occupational outcomes undermines our understanding of internal migration, particularly given the number of recent studies that failed to find significant wage gains associated with migration.…”

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confidence: 88%

U.S. internal Migration and Occupational Attainment: Assessing Absolute and Relative Outcomes by Region and Race

Flippen

2013

Popul Res Policy Rev

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This paper investigates the occupational implications of contemporary migration flows by region and race. Even though the expectation of a positive link between geographic and social mobility is a central tenet in the stratification literature, empirical assessments are rare and have produced inconsistent results. Our analysis departs from traditional frameworks by integrating both absolute and relative notions of occupational standing for evaluating migration outcomes, comparing migrants against non-migrant peers both at origin and destination. Results document that for whites migration is associated with higher occupational attainment both in absolute and relative terms, irrespective of the regional direction of the move. For blacks, on the other hand, absolute occupational gains are markedly absent for migration to the South, which is instead characterized by significant improvement in relative terms. The differences in absolute and relative gains by race and direction of the move helps contextualize the considerable black over representation in north-south migration and highlights the implications of current internal mobility for racial stratification.

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“…Social status is not readily observable but a large consensus exists that education, occupational status and income are its main indicators (Brown et al, 1988;McLeod and Nonnemaker, 1999;Lee et al, 2009). These indicators correlate to a high degree but the correlation is not perfect.…”

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The social status of migrants in Turkey

Binatlı

Akdede

2014

Int J of Manpower

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social status of migrants in a culturally liberal and historically cosmopolitan port city in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach -A novel data set from the Izmir Labor Market Household Survey is used. Social status is measured by occupational status, wages, and education. In addition, parents' education, as well as, duration of unemployment for migrants is analyzed. Occupational status and education analyzes are based on ordered probit models. The probability that an individual with given characteristics will have an uneducated parent is estimated with a probit model. Weibull duration model is employed for the unemployment duration. Findings -Migrants in Izmir are likely to have occupations that claim a lower status. Migrants have higher wages so migrants are taking jobs of lower status but higher pay. The probability of exiting unemployment for migrants is higher, that is the duration of unemployment for migrants is shorter. Male have higher education levels and receive higher wages. Parents' education for migrants is lower in general. Female migrants have lower education levels than natives, male or female, and do not receive higher wages than female natives in the labor market. The paper concludes that the social status of migrant women is definitely lower than natives, male or female, and male migrants. Evidence on the social status of migrant men also points to a disadvantage as even though the male migrant is more educated on average, he is likely to hold an occupation of lower status. Originality/value -This paper employs a novel data set to investigate the social status of migrants vs natives. In addition, it undertakes a multi-dimensional econometric analyses of social status. Unemployment has not been included in econometric analysis of social status before.

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Social status inconsistency and migration

Cited by 7 publications

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Low Occupational Prestige and Internal Migration in Germany

Low Occupational Prestige and Internal Migration in Germany

U.S. internal Migration and Occupational Attainment: Assessing Absolute and Relative Outcomes by Region and Race

The social status of migrants in Turkey

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