Essays about: "Occupational attainment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Occupational attainment.

  1. 1. The Effect of Paternal Job Loss on Intergenerational Mobility in Educational and Occupational Choice

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Oona Tuominen; [2023]
    Keywords : job loss; intergenerational mobility; occupational choice; educational attainment;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the effect of father’s job displacement on his children’s occupational and educational choices. I use Finnish administrative data covering years 1989-2020 and identify downsizing as well as closing workplaces to find exogenous job losses. READ MORE

  3. 2. Migrant Selection and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from 19th-Century Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Aron Strandberg; [2018]
    Keywords : Emigration; Socioeconomic status; Self-selection; Sweden; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : During the Age of Mass Migration, 30 million Europeans left their home countries and emigrated to the United States. Sweden had one of the highest out-migration rates of the era. Between 1860 to 1920, around 1.3 million people–a quarter of the population–left Sweden to seek opportunity in the United States. READ MORE

  4. 3. Coupled careers: Win-win or zero-sum? : How the partner’s occupational status relates to individual labor market outcomes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Lars Lewenhagen; [2017]
    Keywords : Coupled careers; partner effects; occupational status; gender; social stratification;

    Abstract : The dynamics between partners’ careers have implications for household and gender inequality as heterosexual unions are usually formed by two individuals with similar educational attainment where the man has a stronger labor market position. This paper examines how the partner’s occupational status relates to individual career outcomes, and how the association varies by gender. READ MORE

  5. 4. Migrations Among Educationally Homogamous Couples in The US: 1997-2013

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Scott Glenn; [2016]
    Keywords : Migration; Female Labour Force Participation; Bargaining Models; Dual Career Couples; Internal Migration; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As female labor participation rates, educational attainment, and occupational prestige improve the colocational dilemma of migration increasingly a problem. This paper seeks to determinine the difference in determinents and outcomes of interstate migration across educationally homogamous couples in the United States. READ MORE

  6. 5. The economic performance of Chinese immigrants in North America In 1990s

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Hongwei Han; [2015]
    Keywords : Chinese immigrants; immigration; the United States; Canada; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The immigrants from China have generally taken over European immigrants to play important role in the North America since 1960s. Based on the human capital theory and neoclassical economic theory, this thesis examines the characteristics of Chinese immigrants who respectively arrived at the United States and Canada since 1990 (cohort 1990-1997 and cohort 1998- 2000). READ MORE