Stratified scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout Abstract. While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social strat

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟

Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

To construct the OEP scale from 4-digit ISCO codes in Stata, install the crosswalk package then:

crosswalk oep = isco88_to_oep(isco88)
crosswalk oep = isco08_to_oep(isco08)

Voilà

GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡

Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale

github.com/benjann/cros...

Occupational earning potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe. By Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps, @roujman.bsky.social, Erik Bihagen and @katymorris.bsky.social | publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Thrilled to share that my paper “Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom” was accepted at JOLE earlier this year.

Full article here👉 doi.org/10.1086/732300.
A short 🧵 below - my first on 🦋!

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Jacobs Foundation has opened a call for research fellowships! jacobsfoundation.smapply.org/prog/jacobs_...

The 2024 Zetterberg Prize has been awarded to Per Engzell!  

Today at Uppsala University, he delivered a talk on how firms influence the intergenerational transmission of labor market advantages. Congratulations, Per!

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Introducing the Occupational Earning Potential (OEP) scale...

OEP is a linear scale that measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the overall earnings distribution

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Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men A common assumption in the social stratification literature is that the lion’s share of people reaches occupational maturity quite early in working li…

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- What are the consequences if maturity does not occur around age 35?

- Does the study have any limitations?

- Which paths should future research take?

Find answers and more in the article 👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The maturation approach aligns with some of Goldthorpe's writings, where he describes it as a "marked falling off in probability of job changes involving major shift of occupational level".

And not with studies assuming class maturity, or a fixed class destination after an age (~35).

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Our article argues against describing class stabilization as "maturity"; a fixed state that can be reached.

A more fruitful approach is to describe it as “maturation”. That is: a process, not a state or destination.

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A direct evaluation is by looking at "age at last class shift" by age, for p25/50/75, as the figure 👇 shows.

Sure, about 25% do reach maturity after 35, but p50 & p75 show substantive transitions after 35 👉 Majority of people don’t reach class maturity.

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Figure 👇 shows, on average, how class changes occur during the working career (age 15-64). Most of the action (changes) is before ages 15-35, but substantial shift is also seen after age 35.

This does not resonate well with the class maturity assumption…

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Many studies assume that class maturity happens ~ age 35. E.g. inter-gen. mobility studies which use any age above 35 for both parents & offspring. Also class-gradient health studies use “current class”.

But how does this align with life-course evidence?

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity?

a) Does it happen after a certain age?

b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state?

These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇

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