Occupational Change in Europe
How Technology and Education Transform the Job Structure
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199680962
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages194 pages
- Size 225x157x17 mm
- Weight 344 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the pattern of occupational change in Western Europe by drawing on extensive evidence of employment data in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland since 1990.
MoreLong description:
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.
This thoughtful book considers the reasons why the distribution of jobs, from the highest paid to the lowest, changed over the past 20 years in five European countries, including Britain and Germany.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Debate in the Literature on Occupational Change
Occupational Upgrading in Europe since 1990
Demand-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Trade and Technology
Supply-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Education and Migration
The Role of Institutions: Wage-Setting and Occupational Change
Upgrading at the Cost of Unemployment?
Conclusion
