Abstract
This paper studies the effect in the Italian case of geographical mobility on employment and occupational attainment, defined as access to the upper class, avoidance of the working class, and avoidance of agricultural jobs. It observes the distribution of its effect over the life course. Given that migration is a gendered phenomenon, we perform separate analyses by gender. Our data set, moreover, includes residential information at the municipality level, making it possible to specify geographical mobility in different ways, according to the distance, the characteristics of origin, and destination and the frequency of individual movements. Third, it studies whether the effects of geographical mobility change according to social class of origin and geographical area of origin.Our analyses, based on linear probability panel models with fixed effects, show a strong gender divide concerning the probability of employment and avoidance of the working class. A positive effect of geographical mobility on occupational outcomes appears to exist only as regards men, because for women the divergence between movers and stayers appears well before geographical mobility. Finally, the effects of geographical mobility are generally stronger for individuals originating from the middle and lower classes and from rural areas, but they are not so strong as to enable those individuals to substantially change their position in the occupational hierarchy.
Highlights
Current research in social demography (e.g., Kulu et al, 2018; Mulder, 2018) is arousing new interest in the relation among ascribed variables, such as gender and family background, geographical mobility ( GM), and occupational attainment
This paper studies the effect in the Italian case of geographical mobility on employment and occupational attainment, defined as access to the upper class, avoidance of the working class, and avoidance of agricultural jobs
While selection into GM in Italy has been studied elsewhere (Ballarino & Panichella, 2017; Impicciatore & Panichella, 2019; Panichella, 2012), this paper focuses on the impact of GM on occupational attainment
Summary
Current research in social demography (e.g., Kulu et al, 2018; Mulder, 2018) is arousing new interest in the relation among ascribed variables, such as gender and family background, geographical mobility ( GM), and occupational attainment. The effects of geographical mobility are generally stronger for individuals originating from the middle and lower classes and from rural areas, but they are not so strong as to enable those individuals to substantially change their position in the occupational hierarchy.
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