Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria
- The gendered division of occupations is a persistent characteristic of the Austrian labour market. Furthermore, we can observe more flexible employment biographies, where sequential employment episodes and occupational transitions become an important part. On this account, the article argues that both gender inequalities and labour market movements need to be examined simultaneously. The authors therefore analyse gender-(un)typed horizontal occupational transitions and their influence on the vertical positioning, based on the Austrian Micro Census (2008–2018). The results reveal that gender-typed occupational transitions are regaining relevance and that the gender effect is reversing in that women increasingly leave gender-untyped occupations. The findings also demonstrate that this gender-typed horizontal movement yields a significant decline in occupational status for women, which even increases when women become mothers. Based on their models the authors find no negative effects for fathers.
Author details: | Nina-Sophie FritschORCiDGND, Bernd LiedlORCiD, Gerhard Paulinger |
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URL: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392120969767 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120969767 |
ISSN: | 0085-2066 |
ISSN: | 0011-3921 |
Title of parent work (English): | Current Sociology |
Subtitle (English): | do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines? |
Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/12/08 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2022/11/02 |
Tag: | Austria; children; gender composition; horizontal and vertical movements; labour market; vements labour market occupational transitions |
Volume: | 70 |
Issue: | 5 |
First page: | 720 |
Last Page: | 741 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |