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Title: Why Didn't the Joneses Keep Up? The Unusual Occupational Outcomes of the Late Baby Boomers and the Future of Professional Work
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Hollister, Matissa |
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Why Didn't the Joneses Keep Up? The Unusual Occupational Outcomes of the Late Baby Boomers and the Future of Professional Work Working Paper, Department of Sociology Dartmouth College, 2010. Also: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/pdfs/HollisterGenJones.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College Keyword(s): Data Analysis; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Outcomes; Methods/Methodology; Occupational Choice; Occupational Investment; Occupations; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Overall, professional work has increased steadily since 1950. This paper, however, identifies considerable cohort variation hiding behind this broad trend. In particular, I show that "Generation Jones" (born 1955-1964) entered professional occupations at a particularly low rate. Furthermore, Generation X (born 1965-1974), returned to higher rates of professional work but the cohort was so small that professional workers in Generation X as a share of the total labor force fell to even lower levels. I discuss the implications of these results for understanding the causes of cohort variation, the nature of professional occupations, and the future of professional work. |
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Hollister, Matissa. "Why Didn't the Joneses Keep Up? The Unusual Occupational Outcomes of the Late Baby Boomers and the Future of Professional Work." Working Paper, Department of Sociology Dartmouth College, 2010. |