Using Public Data to Evaluate Mobility-Based Occupational Classifications for Placement of Job Applicants.

Autor/inn/en	Gottfredson, Gary D.; Joffe, Richard D.
Institution	Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Center for Social Organization of Schools.
Titel	Using Public Data to Evaluate Mobility-Based Occupational Classifications for Placement of Job Applicants.
Quelle	(1980), (77 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adults; Classification; Data Analysis; Employees; Individual Characteristics; Job Analysis; Job Placement; Labor Market; National Surveys; Occupational Clusters; Occupational Mobility; Occupations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Auswertung; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Arbeitsanalyse; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufsgruppe; Berufliche Mobilität; Beruf; Berufsumfeld
Abstract	The experimental development of occupational classifications based on regularities of movement of workers among jobs has been used recently to place job seekers in available jobs. The social and psychological meaning of a classification, developed by Dauffenbach, was explored by describing the classification's categories in terms of the demographic characteristics of category incumbents (based on data from the 1970 census) and job content (based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Position Analysis Questionnaire data). Results imply that mobility-based classifications: (1) provide powerful descriptions of the structure of labor markets; (2) are related to job content; and (3) are also related to sex and race, well beyond the extent to which this association is shared with job characteristics. Findings suggest that basing a classification for personnel placement on occupatonal mobility patterns may incorporate undesirable aspects of existing labor market practices, and that more direct efforts aimed at systematizing knowledge about the transferability of skills may be more productive than relying on mobility-based classifications, despite the heuristic value of the mobility approach. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01