Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Britain: Occupational Class and the Wage Structure in the Wake of the Great Recession

Occupations traditionally played a central role in stratification accounts. In the wake of the Great Recession, debates regarding the extent and nature of occupational stratification have been reinvigorated. An exploration of occupational wage stratification patterns defined by both detailed occupational unit groups and the broader occupational class categories of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) reveals the proportion of wage inequality between occupations and occupational classes has remained broadly stable 1997 to 2015. No compelling evidence is found for growing wage inequalities between detailed occupations within NS-SEC categories. This article underlines the continued utility of occupations and particularly the NS-SEC grouping of them in describing the structure of stratification in contemporary Britain.

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The Great Recession and new class voting in Iceland

Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration ◽

10.13177/irpa.a.2018.14.3.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 159-182

Author(s):

Agnar Freyr Helgason

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Critical Role ◽

Occupational Class ◽

New Parties ◽

The Great Recession ◽

New Class ◽

National Election Study ◽

Class Voting ◽

New Type

Conventional wisdom suggests that occupational class plays a limited role in explaining vote choice in Iceland. In this paper, we argue that the death of class in Icelandic politics may be premature and that it still plays a role in structuring political preferences and party choice. While the importance of the traditional class cleavage may have declined to the point of irrelevance, we suggest that there is a new type of class voting in Iceland, containing both a vertical and a horizontal component. Furthermore, we argue that the Great Recession played a critical role in increasing the strength of class voting around this new class schema, both because of the conflict around economic issues it generated, but also because of its facilitation of the formation and success of new parties. We test our main hypotheses using multinomial logistic regression on data from the Icelandic National Election Study from 1999 to 2016 and apply a modified measure of cleavage strength, which we refer to as “Full Kappa”. Our results suggest that class voting is alive and well in Iceland and that its strength has increased following the Great Recession.

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Exporters and wage inequality during the Great Recession—Evidence from Germany

Economics Letters ◽

10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.035 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 136 ◽

pp. 137-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wolfgang Dauth ◽

Hans-Joerg Schmerer ◽

Erwin Winkler

Keyword(s):

Wage Inequality ◽

Great Recession ◽

The Great Recession

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Stuck in a Time Warp? The Great Recession and the Socio-occupational Integration of Migrants in Spain

Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale ◽

10.1007/s12134-021-00914-1 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Juan Ramón Jiménez-García ◽

Antonina Levatino

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Labour Force ◽

Occupational Class ◽

Occupational Structure ◽

Unequal Distribution ◽

Main Research ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Occupational Integration ◽

Research Questions ◽

First Time

AbstractThis article examines the socio-occupational integration of the immigrant population in Spain for a time span that, for the first time, includes the post-crisis period. Using the Spanish Labour Force Survey and conducting a socio-occupational analysis, we predict the probability that a migrant would be employed in one socio-occupational class over another in three periods: before, during and after the crisis. Our main research questions are as follows: (1) To what extent do migrants tend to be located in certain socio-occupational classes? (2) To what extent does the likelihood of belonging to a certain socio-occupational class differ according to immigrants’ places of origin? (3) Can differences be found in the likelihood of belonging to a certain socio-occupational class according to the places of origin before, during and after the Great Recession? The results show a very unequal distribution of immigrants in the socio-occupational structure according to their origin. While immigrants from Schengen Europe and North America are better located in the occupational structure, those from Eastern Europe and Africa are over-represented in the lower socio-occupational classes.

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession: A scoping review of the research literature

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1403494818801637 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (6) ◽

pp. 635-654 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kristian Heggebø ◽

Anne Grete Tøge ◽

Espen Dahl ◽

John Erik Berg

Keyword(s):

Scoping Review ◽

Great Recession ◽

English Language ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Socioeconomic Inequalities ◽

Research Literature ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Occupational Class ◽

Inequalities In Health ◽

The Great Recession

Aims: The so-called ‘Great Recession’ in Europe triggered widespread concerns about population health, as reflected by an upsurge in empirical research on the health impacts of the economic crisis. A growing body of empirical studies has also been devoted to socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession. The aim of the current study is to summarise this health inequality literature by means of a scoping review. Methods: We have performed a scoping review of the research literature (English language) published in the years 2012–2017. Only empirical papers with (a) health status measured on the individual level, (b) information on socioeconomic position (i.e. employment status, educational level, income/wealth, and/or occupational class), and (c) data from European countries in both pre- and post-crisis years were considered relevant. In total, 49 empirical studies fulfilled these inclusion criteria. Results: The empirical findings in the 49 included studies predominantly show that socioeconomic inequalities in health either increased or remained stable from pre- to post-crisis years. Two-thirds (65%) of the studies found evidence of either increasing or partially increasing health inequalities. Thus, people in lower socioeconomic strata fared worse overall in terms of health during the Great Recession, compared to people with higher socioeconomic status. Conclusions: The Great Recession in Europe tends to be followed by increasing socioeconomic inequalities in health. Policymakers should take note of this finding. Widening socioeconomic inequalities in health is a major cause of concern, in particular if health deterioration among ‘vulnerable groups’ is caused by accelerating cumulative disadvantages.

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