On the cost of being crude: comparison of detailed and coarse occupational coding in the ISSP 1987 data

Der Verfasser setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob die detaillierte Codierung von Berufen im Gegensatz zu einer groberen Klassifizierung die damit verbundenen Mühen und Kosten wert ist. Als Datenmaterial dient ihm das International Social Survey Programme 1987, das sowohl detaillierte als auch grobere Berufsdaten - unabhängig voneinander erhoben - enthält. Es zeigt sich, dass zwischen der Reliabilität der detaillierten und der groben Daten kaum ein Unterschied besteht. Die groben Daten zeigen eine - allerdings nur sehr kleine - Tendenz zur Immobilität im Generationenvergleich. Die gleichzeitige Messung detaillierter und grober Codierungen kann zu einem Forschungsdesign mit mehreren Indikatoren führen. (ICE

Unemployment scarring by gender: Human capital depreciation or stigmatization? Longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands, 1980-2000

Using longitudinal data from the Dutch Labor Force Supply Panel (OSA), this article examines how unemployment scarring (i.e., wage setbacks following unemployment) and its underlying mechanisms operate across gender in the Netherlands over the period 1985-2000. A series of fixed effect panel models that correct for unobserved heterogeneity, reveal a notable disparity in unemployment scarring by gender. Interestingly, while unemployment scarring is short-lived and partly conditional upon human capital differences among women, it is strongly persistent among men and contingent upon old age, ethnicity, and tight economic conditions. Our findings provide new evidence regarding unemployment scarring by gender while they support the hypothesis that among women the effects of unemployment scarring are predominantly driven by human capital depreciation, while among men stigma effects dominate

Gepubliceerde zelfmoorden en verhoging van sterfte door zelfmoord en ongelukken in Nederland 1972-1980

relation between newspaper suicide stories and mortality caused by suicides and accidents,using Dutch data, 1972-1980. Expected mortality rates were constructed 1. byusing Phillips's (1974) method, and 2. by regressing mortality rates on time and dummy""iabi'" fo, mon,hiy effect'. Ou, re,ui" are incandasi"'. Fo' ",icid< and ,,,4flcaccidents, mortality rates tend to rise 3-80/0 on a monthly basis (about the sameamount as Phillips revealed), but this is not significant at conventional significancelevels (though v

A new international measure of social stratification

In this paper we present a new international measure of social stratification, the ICAMS (International Cambridge Scale). Our aim is to bring new evidence to the hypothesis that the construct that underlies measures of social stratification as different as prestige scales, socioeconomic indexes, social distance and social status scales is actually unidimensional. We evaluate the new scale according to both criterion-related and construct validity. Our analysis shows that the ICAMS is a valid indicator of social stratification, being almost as valid as International Socio-Economic Index (ISEI) in what we termed the generic, the homogamy and the social mobility models, and being better than ISEI in the cultural consumption model. The second key result is that all continuous measures we consider (ICAMS, ISEI and Standard International Occupational Prestige Scale) are indicators of the same latent dimension, which is unidimensional. This latter result is compatible with morethan one explanation, hence calling for further research