Career, Family, and Workforce Mobility: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Poetry and Neuroscience: : An Interdisciplinary Conversation.

Dialogues and collaborations between scientists and non-scientists are now widely understood as important elements of scientific research and public engagement with science. In recognition of this, the authors, a neuroscientist and a poet, use a dialogical approach to extend questions and ideas first shared during a lab-based poetry residency. They recorded a conversation and then expanded it i...

Career: Building an Interdisciplinary Program in Culture and Cognition

For most of the 20 century the fields of anthropology, psychology and economics have become increasingly insular, despite the substantial overlaps in their domains of inquiry. Recently however, with a growing recognition across these disciplines that human psychology, culture and behavior cannot be understood independently from one another, researchers have begun to integrate across these field...

Measuring Career Mobility: An Empirical Comparison of Six Mobility Indexes

The current paper presents six indexes that can be used to characterize the course of a career during a particular time interval, respectively, (1) the total number of transitions during that interval; (2) the number of positive transitions; (3) the number of negative transitions; (4) the subtraction of the number of negative transitions from the number of positive transitions; (5) the relative...

Career Mobility and the Communist Political Order

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling – the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment – is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively un...