Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? New insights from the United States

Autor: Heike Solga, Maurice Gesthuizen
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics
soziales Netzwerk
media_common.quotation_subject
I24
J24
Vulnerability
Qualifikationsniveau
Arbeitsmarktchancen
jel:J20
Inequality
cohesion and modernization
jel:J24
Competition (economics)
jel:I24
Niedrigqualifizierte
soziale Faktoren
Argument
ddc:330
Economics
Ongelijkheid
cohesie en modernisering
Cognitive skill
Socioeconomic status
USA
Statusinkonsistenz
media_common
L14
Arbeitslose
beruflicher Status
General Social Survey
Arbeitsmarktrisiko
Wettbewerb
Industrial relations
Unemployment
Value (economics)
jel:L14
J20
Niedriglohn
kognitive Fähigkeit
Arbeitsmarktrisiko
Qualifikationsniveau
Niedrigqualifizierte
Niedriglohn
beruflicher Status
Wettbewerb
Arbeitskräfteangebot
kognitive Fähigkeit
soziales Netzwerk
soziale Faktoren
Arbeitslose
Statusinkonsistenz
Arbeitsmarktchancen
USA
Arbeitskräfteangebot
Zdroj: Journal for Labour Market Research, 47, 205-221
Journal for Labour Market Research, 47, 3, pp. 205-221
ISSN: 1614-3485
Popis: "There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an oversupply of higher educated workers, who displace the less-educated from their jobs. In addition to exploring this argument, we investigate the impact of less-educated men's cognitive skills, their social resources, and the (historically embedded) signaling value of not having educational credentials. We study this impact by using institutional and compositional variations across labor market entry cohorts in the United States. For our analyses, we use the data of the 1974-2008 US General Social Survey (GSS). They show that an oversupply of high-educated workers mainly increases the unemployment risks of the higher-educated themselves. In labor market entry cohorts where the negative selection on parental background of the group of less-educated is more pronounced, the less-educated run a relatively high risk of unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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