Showing papers on "Vertical mobility published in 1985"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared vertical mobility in Dublin and England and Wales as displayed in mobility tables using the seven class categories developed by Goldthorpe (1980) and showed that relative mobility chances are distributed in a cross-nationally similar fashion, while allowing for the existence of crossnational differences in absolute mobility flows.
Abstract: This paper compares vertical mobility in Dublin and England and Wales as displayed in mobility tables using the seven class categories developed by Goldthorpe (1980). A model is developed * which demonstrates the pattern of vertical mobility in each country and also allows us to measure the extent of class inheritance as distinct from class self-recruitment. The data are used to test the FJH thesis, and some differences between Dublin and England and Wales - in their degree of'openness' and in the relative standings of the different classes - are examined.. Patterns of relative mobility are found to differ quite strongly between the two with Dublin being considerably less open than England and Wales. In recent years two main approaches have been taken in testing the modification of the Lipset-Zetterberg thesis advanced by Featherman, Lancaster-Jones and Hauser.l The original Lipset-Zetterberg thesis stated that 'the overall pattern of social mobility appears to be much the same in the industrial societies of various western countries'2 while the revision of Featherman, Lancaster-Jones and Hauser, which we term the FJH thesis (following Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero),3 claims that relative mobility chances are distributed in a crossnationally similar fashion, while allowing for the existence of crossnational differences in absolute mobility flows. In other words, the FJH thesis allows for cross-population variation in the marginal distribution of fathers' and sons' occupations (origins and destinations) but hypothesizes broadly similar patterns of association between * . . . Orlglns anc . c .estlnatlons. The two approaches commonly taken in examining the FJH thesis are, firstly, the comparative analysis of a large number of relatively small tables;4 and, secondly, the examination of a smaller number of somewhat larger tables, permitting more detailed investigation of mobility patterns.5 This paper presents an example of the latter kind
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discussed and illustrated the use of models for the analysis of association in the study of vertical mobility, and a parsimonious model has been arrived at which provides a statistically adequate fit to the data (although none of the models fits the English data).
Abstract: This paper has discussed and illustrated the use of models for the analysis of association in the study of vertical mobility. The methods have been applied to Danish and English data, and a parsimonious model has been arrived at which provides a statistically adequate fit to the data (although none of the models fits the English data). It has been shown that a good account of the mobility processes can be given by positing a cross-nationally constant level of class inheritance in class one and in classes two, three and five, and the absence of any specific inheritance parameter in class four, and a pattern of vertical mobility described by the heterogeneous column-effects model, in which the effects of each destination class on the association vary both within and between countries.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the cohort approach to study the structural change of the workforce in the industrial and agricultural sectors of the German economy and found that the entry of younger people into the tertiary sector was relatively high until the 1950s and went along with an increasing exit mobility during the employment life.
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TL;DR: In this article, a model of mobility in an organization such as promotion or lateral transfer is constructed, and the authors distinguish two types of mobility: relational mobility and compulsive mobility, i.e., mobility caused by scrap-and-build of jobs with the introduction of new technology or to save labor cost.
Abstract: This paper aims to construct a model of mobility in organization such as promotion or lateral transfer. We distinguish two types of mobility. One is “relational mobility” : mobility along “mobility cluster”. Internal labor market theory of Doeringer and Piore is the theory of this type mobility. The other is “compulsive mobility” : mobility caused by scrap-and-build of jobs with the introduction of new technology or to save labor cost. Labor economists in Japan suggest that this type of mobility is one of distinct features of Japanese Labor-Management relations.To measure these two types of mobility, we re-examine the studies of mobility on the level of total society. Especially, we take notice of Yasuda's argument about compulsive mobility and pure mobility. We will show that “mobility table” analysis is not adequate to analyse mobility in organizations by three reasons : (1) ambiguity of times to be compared; (2) closed-system assumption; (3) confusion of moves and movers. Then, we propose open system “mobility accumulation table” analysis, which allowes people to enter and/or leave the organization in question. The frequency of moves from strutum i to strutum j is written in the (i, j) cells. From this table, we measure compulsive mobility to compare marginals of rows and columns, and measure relational mobility to standardize marginals. These two and the method of mostellerzing enable us to build a model to predict mobility in organizations. This model is applicable to the system where vacancies and superfluous members take place at the same time, which vacancy-chains model is not applicable to.