How Does Job Mobility Affect Inequality? Evidence from the South Korean Economic Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18978619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seongsoo Choi (0000-0002-0408-9394, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1045-1073 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sf/sov095 |
| OpenAlex | W2300060288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
Previous research suggests that increasing job mobility leads to increasing economic inequality. In this study, I argue that an increase in job mobility can be inequality reducing, depending on the macro-structural context in which job changes become more frequent. I demonstrate empirical evidence by applying a new analytical approach to data from the South Korean economic crisis of the late 1990s. I find that rates of job transitions increased significantly during and after the economic crisis, and that more frequent movements between jobs ameliorated the rising trend in inequality: in other words, inequality in occupational status after the crisis would have been even greater had it not been for changes in the pattern of transitions between jobs
Affect (linguistics) · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Inequality · Labour economics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology
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Outsourcing at Will
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Welfare and the unemployment crisis
Declining Job Stability
Internal labor markets and the effects of structural change
Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations
Analyzing Change over Time in a Continuous Dependent Variable
Industrial Restructuring and the Mobility Response of American Workers in the 1980s
The American occupational structure
Structural Change, Labor Market Turbulence, and Labor Market Outcomes
The social perils of the Korean financial crisis
Inequality
Job Mobility and Career Processes
Welfare States and the Scar Effects of Unemployment
Path dependence in historical sociology
Externalizing employment
Enduring an economic crisis
Internal Labor Markets and Earnings Trajectories in the Post-Fordist Economy
Internationally Comparable Measures of Occupational Status for the 1988 International Standard Classification of Occupations
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |