Volume 23 - Article 24 | Pages 669–696
Studying historical occupational careers with multilevel growth models
| Date received: | 17 Dec 2009 |
| Date published: | 01 Oct 2010 |
| Word count: | 7156 |
| Keywords: | growth models, historical data, professional career |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.24 |
| Weblink: | You will find all publications in this Special Collection “Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long-Term Perspective” at http://www.demographic-research.org/special/10/ |
Abstract
In this article we propose to study occupational careers with historical data by using multilevel growth models. Historical career data are often characterized by a lack of information on the timing of occupational changes and by different numbers of observations of occupations per individual. Growth models can handle these specificities, whereas standard methods, such as event history analyses can’t. We illustrate the use of growth models by studying career success of men and women, using data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. The results show that the method is applicable to male careers, but causes trouble when analyzing female careers.
Author's Affiliation
Wiebke Schulz - Universität Bremen, Germany
Ineke Maas - Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands
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