The paper develops a model that explains a broad pattern of evidence on careers in multilevel organizations. It shows how job mobility inside firms depends on changes in the size of the organization. Promotion rates rise (fall) during a corporate expansion (contraction). Economic conditions therefore affect individual career mobility and earnings profiles. The model analyzes how the interaction...

This study explicitly links processes of anticipatory socialization to social mobility and reproduction. An examination of the socializing messages exchanged between blue-collar parents (n = 41) and their children (n = 25) demonstrate that family-based messages about work and career seldom occur in straightforward, unambiguous ways. Instead, messages take several paths (direct, indirect, ambien...

This paper examines the utility of viewing migration in the context of careers and family life cycles by studying migration as a discretestate, continuous-time process. We find that the inverse relationship between age and migration is due almost completely to the effects of family life cycle and career variables, and further, that jobor location-specific resources, prestige, and wage deter mig...

Abstract Moving across borders to take up academic positions is one form of occupational mobility (or migration), that often presented as constitutive an career. Drawing on biographical and qualitative egocentric network interviews with early-career academics working in Switzerland the United States, this chapter shows transnational career moves young scholars are embedded social relationships ...

BACKGROUND German hospitals have a well-defined career structure for clinicians. In this hierarchical career system university hospital are stepping stones for career advancement. This longitudinal study investigates the impact of working in university hospitals on the career success of junior physicians and senior physicians. METHODS Consideration of the career trajectories of 324 hospital p...

In this paper we study job shift patterns in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Our research questions concern (a) cross-country similarities and differences in (firm-internal and firm-external) job mobility, (b) an explanation of job shift patterns by labor market composition, and (c) influences of human capital and labor ma...

Analyses of social mobility remains divided between structuralist (e.g. class structural) and individualist (e.g. status attainment) perspectives. Primarily adopted by sociologists, the former focus on the opportunity structure in which social mobility operates, while the latter, adopted by economists, on the individual attributes associated with mobility. It is becoming increasingly clear howe...