TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bachmann, Ronald
AU  - Bechara, Peggy
AU  - Vonnahme, Christina
        TI  - Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences
        PY  - 2019/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12679
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12679
        AB  - We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change across the EU. In addition, we identify potential explanations for the observed cross-country variation. Our results show that on average, 3% of European workers change their occupation per year, and that the extent of occupational mobility differs strongly by country. Individual characteristics play an important role for person-specific occupational mobility, but have little explanatory power for differences between countries. 
Occupational mobility is strongly associated with earnings mobility, and occupation movers are more likely than job movers to experience a downward rather than an upward earnings transition; by contrast, changing occupation voluntarily is more often followed by an upward wage transition. As opposed to composition effects, employment protection legislation seems to play an important role for explaining cross-country differences in occupational mobility through its impact on overall job mobility. 
        KW  - occupational mobility
KW  - job mobility
KW  - wage mobility
KW  - European labour markets
KW  - EU-SILC
        ER  -