Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: an exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data

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  • dc.contributor.author Avent-Holt, Dustin
  • dc.contributor.author Folke Henriksen, Lasse
  • dc.contributor.author Hägglund, Anna Erika
  • dc.contributor.author Jung, Jiwook
  • dc.contributor.author Kodama, Naomi
  • dc.contributor.author Melzer, Silvia Maja
  • dc.contributor.author Mun, EunmiK
  • dc.contributor.author Rainey, Anthony
  • dc.contributor.author Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald
  • dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-22T06:18:29Z
  • dc.date.available 2024-04-22T06:18:29Z
  • dc.date.issued 2020
  • dc.description.abstract Occupations have long been held by sociologists, from the older status attainment tradition to the more recent micro-class tradition, to be at the center of stratification writ large. Occupations are specifically argued to be central to shaping wages. Indeed, this has been understood as the comparative advantage of sociology relative to economics in understanding wage setting. However, an undercurrent has for decades existed in sociology that suggests other contexts, mainly workplaces and jobs, may be as important if not more important stratification contexts. Until recently data with the capacity to simultaneously assess all three contexts has been virtually non-existent. In this paper we use administrative data from five countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, and South Korea) to assess the relative contributions of occupations, establishments, and jobs to wages. Our core finding is that there is no universal link between occupations and wages, with occupations explaining between 30 and 56 % of wage variance across country-years. As well, in all countries except Finland establishments explain more of the variance in wages than do occupations. Jobs and establishment figure prominently in the social organization of wages, and must be included in theoretical models and whenever possible in empirical analyses of social stratification.
  • dc.description.sponsorship We also thank Lynn Prince Cooke at the University of Bath for providing Hägglund with access to the Finnish data. Henriksen received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark grant No. 5052-001143-B to purchase data and conduct the analysis of the Danish labor market. Avent-Holt and Tomaskovic-Devey received funding from the National Science Foundation, SES-1524787. Tomaskovic-Devey also received funding from the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation. All correspondence should be made to Dustin Avent-Holt, Augusta University, daventho@augusta.edu. The access to Finnish data was made possible by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement 680958, LP Cooke, PI).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Avent-Holt D, Henriksen LF, Hägglund AE, Jung J, Kodama N, Melzer SM, et al. Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: an exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2020 Dec;70:100456. DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2019.100456
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2019.100456
  • dc.identifier.issn 0276-5624
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59850
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Elsevier
  • dc.relation.ispartof Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2020 Dec;70:100456
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/680958
  • dc.rights © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  • dc.subject.other Estratificació social
  • dc.subject.other Sociòlegs
  • dc.subject.other Treball
  • dc.title Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: an exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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