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100 1 Tsao, Hui-shien
245 10 Career mobility in an age of economic restructuring: A
multilevel analysis|h[electronic resource]
300 199 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-
04, Section: A, page: 1591
500 Adviser: Richard Hall
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany,
2001
520 The American economy has experienced enormous changes
since the late 1970s, and this wave of changes has
extended into the 1990s. The kind of career patterns that
workers have been engaged over this time period is the
major interest of this dissertation. Career mobility is
frequently examined in a cross-sectional context. However,
careers are made up of a series of jobs, which suggests
that a longitudinal approach to career mobility is more
appropriate than a cross-sectional approach. The National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979--1994, is the empirical
basis of this dissertation. Two methodologies are applied
to the career mobility process. First, the partial
adjustment model is used to investigate the career
dynamics of American workers. Second, event history
analysis is used to explore job mobility processes
520 A number of methodological innovations are incorporated
into this dissertation. First, multilevel modeling is used
in conjunction with the partial adjustment model to
estimate career dynamics. Unlike cross-sectional analyses
that simply compare individuals' achievement at a given
point in time, this dissertation illustrates career
trajectories by gender and race, and also demonstrates how
career dynamics differ across demographic groups. Next,
instead of studying a general mobility process, this
dissertation decomposes job mobility by distinguishing
types of mobility. Two sets of distinctions were made: the
direction of job mobility (i.e., upward, downward, or
horizontal) and the reasons for job mobility (i.e.,
voluntary or involuntary)
520 The results, in general, were consistent with my
hypotheses. Whites still have better opportunities to
advance in their careers compared to Hispanics and blacks.
Blacks have the weakest momentum in terms of building
their careers; moreover, they are also at the bottom of
the occupational prestige hierarchy. Also, job mobility
was triggered by individual characteristics, job
characteristics, and macroeconomic factors. The effects of
job characteristics and macroeconomic indicators are
further differentiated after the types of mobility and the
reasons for leaving jobs are specified. The impact of
mergers and acquisitions on job mobility is rarely
evaluated in the job mobility literature. The results in
this research, though, show that mergers and acquisition
do increase workers' risks of being fired or experiencing
"programs end" because of the disappearance of jobs.
Overall, the findings support the general impression that
American business are downsizing
590 School code: 0668
650 4 Sociology, Demography
650 4 Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
650 4 Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
650 4 Economics, Labor
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