Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CAREER (From School to Career: Towards A Career Perspective on the Labor Market Returns to Education)
Reporting period: 2021-02-01 to 2022-07-31
*Hiring researchers for project // PI
*Study on job mobility in Germany (SOEP-data) //PI, PhD1
*Cleaning SOEP data // PhD1
*Analyzing SOEP data on job mobility //PI, PhD1
*Cleaning/working with the vacancy data in the UK/Netherlands // PI, PD
*Presentation of project in research seminar //PI, PD, PhD1, Phd2
*Developing interview guide // PI, PhD2
*Pilot interviews // PhD2
*Recruiter interviews // PhD2
*Preliminary output of the research project is accepted or planned at ECSR Conference (July 2022), Dag van de Sociologie (June 2022), RC28 (April 2022), Bourdieu Conference (September 2022)
The project is in the first phase, which is also indicated by the steps that have been taken. The first steps have been mostly to set up the theoretical
//Specific output
SP1 will deliver three academic articles: (1) how did the demand change differently for vocational and general graduates across countries (using repeated cross-sectional data), (2) a methodological article on using online vacancy texts to measure shifts in demand within- and between occupation for a sociological audience (comparing repeated cross-sectional and vacancy data), and (3) a paper on (cross-national differences in) the within-occupation changes in demand (vacancy data). Moreover, the data collection in SP1 will form the basis of a monograph on changing labor markets and the effects for workers with different educational backgrounds. The unique cross-national vacancy data will form an important pillar of the book.
SP2 will deliver three academic articles: (1) effects of changing labor markets on vocational and general graduates’ labor market outcomes, (2) effects of within-occupation change in skill demands on vocational and general graduates’ labor market outcomes, and (3) cross-national differences in the effects of changing labor markets on labor market outcomes.
SP3 will deliver three academic articles in the form of a PhD dissertation: (1) career effects of vocational and general education across six European countries, (2) the importance of labor market mobility for understanding vocational career effects, and (3) early career setbacks and long-term effects.
SP4 will deliver three academic articles in the form of a PhD dissertation: (1) Mechanisms for late-career penalty (interviews, factorial experiment), (2) Relative importance of mechanisms (factorial experiment), (3) Organizational and recruiter predictors (factorial experiment, recruiter survey).