Careers within firms: Occupational mobility over the life cycle

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With falling labor market dynamism in the United States, opportunities within firms take on increasing importance in young workers' career progression. Developing a variety of occupational ranking metrics, I show that occupational mobility within firms follows a standard life cycle pattern in which the frequency, distance, and wage return from mobility falls with age. However, when upward and downward mobility are considered separately, the average magnitude of directional mobility increases through middle age. I find that wage growth for young workers deteriorated substantially in the first decade of the 2000s, primarily driven by a reduction in wage growth within firms. Encouragingly, wage growth has improved markedly for young workers since 2012.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 18-286

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
• Thema: Careers ; occupations ; youth

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Forsythe, Eliza C.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• (wo): Kalamazoo, MI
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.17848/wp18-286
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202884
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ