Crossing the border for a higher Status?

Autor(en)

Laura Wiesböck, Roland Verwiebe

Abstrakt

This article discusses cross-border occupational mobility of workers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia who found employment in Austria. We illustrate this topic using data from a longitudinal survey on the employment careers of 1,347 cross-border commuters working in Austria conducted in the winter/spring of 2012/13. Empirically, we demonstrate that despite efforts to diminish structural inequalities between the regions, differences in unemployment and poverty rates continue to play a role. We further find that the majority of cross-border commuters have a different socioeconomic structure than locally residing Austrians overall commuters mostly show mid-level qualifications and work in branches with a high demand for labor (e.g., construction, gastronomy, health industry). Against this background, we pursue the following research question: to what extent are the patterns of occupational mobility of cross-border commuters in Austria influenced by sociodemographic factors, human capital, social capital, and labor market characteristics?

Organisation(en)

Institut für Soziologie

Journal

International Journal of Sociology

Band

47

Seiten

162-181

Anzahl der Seiten

20

ISSN

0020-7659

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2017.1335514

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504021 Migrationsforschung

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4a3dafbb-7013-40f0-83a9-b9a838220402