Occupational Change in Europe
By Daniel Oesch. 2013
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What types of jobs are growing: well-paid managerial jobs or low-paid auxiliary jobs, high-end professional jobs or bottom-end service jobs? Can occupational change transform affluent countries into enlarged middle-class societies? Or, on the contrary, are we heading towards a future of increasingly divided class societies? Do changes in the employment structure allow forthcoming generations to move towards more rewarding jobs than those held by their parents - or is downward mobility the more likely outcome? This book throws new light on these timely questions by drawing on extensive evidence of employment data on the pattern of occupational change in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland since 1990. It documents the change in the employment structure, and examines the five underlying driving forces: technology, globalization, education, migration, and institutions. The book discusses whether governments really have no other choice than either occupational upgrading with soaring unemployment or full employment with expanding low-end jobs. The book gives a clear picture of the future of work, skills, and employment in today's Europe, contributing to the debate in economic sociology and labour economics.
Subfields: Public Administration
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- The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state (2015, background): “…of the workforce and especially the educational expansion have all led to a decline of employment in the skilled and low-skilled industries and massive ‘occupational upgrading’, that is, the expansion of occupational performance in the highskilled service sector (Oesch, 2013, in press).”
- The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015 (2019, background): “Our article resolves this paradox by showing that the empirical evidence for job polarization does not hold for Western Europe.”