DSI Inequity Speaker Series: Xi Song

Session Description

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Professor Xi Song from the Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, The University of Pennsylvania, joins the Data Sciences Institute as part of our Inequity Thematic Program. The Inequity Thematic Program encourages the generation of evidence (data and inference) and tools that enhance our understanding of inequity while supporting equitable social change.

Talk Title : A Mobility Model of Occupations, Opportunities, and Outlook: Linking Administrative and Survey Data

Description: Labor market restructuring—the changing size, content, and significance of different occupations—affects workers’ job mobility opportunities and outcomes. However, existing literature typically focuses on occupational changes at broad categories (e.g., farming, manufacturing, or service occupations). We construct a novel dataset of more than three thousand occupations documented in US federal governments’ Occupational Outlook Handbooks that describe employment trends since 2000 and 10-year projected employment. By linking occupational prospects data to workers’ mobility in the Current Population Surveys, we examine job mobility opportunities of workers in occupations with varying degrees of actual and projected employment change. We develop a new model of occupational mobility that takes into account workers’ characteristics and opportunity constraints in the short- and long-term. Our results reveal new inequality between workers in occupations with job expansion and contraction.

Date: Friday, November 18th, 2022
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Format: This event has been updated to Virtual Only

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