Roujman Shahbazian

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

To construct the OEP scale from 4-digit ISCO codes in Stata, install the crosswalk package then:

crosswalk oep = isco88_to_oep(isco88)
crosswalk oep = isco08_to_oep(isco08)

Voilà

GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡

Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale

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Occupational earning potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe. By Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps, @roujman.bsky.social, Erik Bihagen and @katymorris.bsky.social | publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Thrilled to share that my paper “Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom” was accepted at JOLE earlier this year.

Full article here👉 doi.org/10.1086/732300.
A short 🧵 below - my first on 🦋!

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Jacobs Foundation has opened a call for research fellowships! jacobsfoundation.smapply.org/prog/jacobs_...

The 2024 Zetterberg Prize has been awarded to Per Engzell!  

Today at Uppsala University, he delivered a talk on how firms influence the intergenerational transmission of labor market advantages. Congratulations, Per!

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Introducing the Occupational Earning Potential (OEP) scale...

OEP is a linear scale that measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the overall earnings distribution

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Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men A common assumption in the social stratification literature is that the lion’s share of people reaches occupational maturity quite early in working li…

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- What are the consequences if maturity does not occur around age 35?

- Does the study have any limitations?

- Which paths should future research take?

Find answers and more in the article 👇

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The maturation approach aligns with some of Goldthorpe's writings, where he describes it as a "marked falling off in probability of job changes involving major shift of occupational level".

And not with studies assuming class maturity, or a fixed class destination after an age (~35).

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Our article argues against describing class stabilization as "maturity"; a fixed state that can be reached.

A more fruitful approach is to describe it as “maturation”. That is: a process, not a state or destination.

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A direct evaluation is by looking at "age at last class shift" by age, for p25/50/75, as the figure 👇 shows.

Sure, about 25% do reach maturity after 35, but p50 & p75 show substantive transitions after 35 👉 Majority of people don’t reach class maturity.

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Figure 👇 shows, on average, how class changes occur during the working career (age 15-64). Most of the action (changes) is before ages 15-35, but substantial shift is also seen after age 35.

This does not resonate well with the class maturity assumption…

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Many studies assume that class maturity happens ~ age 35. E.g. inter-gen. mobility studies which use any age above 35 for both parents & offspring. Also class-gradient health studies use “current class”.

But how does this align with life-course evidence?

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity?

a) Does it happen after a certain age?

b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state?

These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇

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