Upgrading or Polarizing? Gendered Patterns of Change in the Occupational Prestige Hierarchy Between 1997 and 2015

Frontiers in Sociology

Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson¹  Tomas Berglund²  Erica Nordlander² 

[1]Department of Social Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

[2]Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

关键词: occupational change;    polarization;    upgrading;    occupational prestige score;    gender segregation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsoc.2022.834514

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article contributes to the discussion on how the Swedish labor market is changing: is it upgrading or polarizing? Drawing on the Swedish Labor Force Survey the study examines the overall changes in the occupational job structure in Sweden by exploring how women and men were distributed within the occupational prestige hierarchy at two points of time, 1997 and 2015. The results show that changes in the labor market have resulted in different patterns of how women and men are distributed within the occupational prestige hierarchy. Women have an upgrading movement and have entered high-prestige occupations, while men have been subjected to job polarization, with an increase in employment in low-prestige occupations, as well as high-prestige ones.

【 授权许可】

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