Formal and Informal Mobility in Internal Labor Markets

最近关于社会不平等的研究集中在 重视组织推动的作用 在塑造职业生涯和收入历史的政策。 虽然大部分 这项工作的假设，促进政策发挥作用， 对这些历史有重大影响， 它的存在是为了支持这个假设。 因此，本研究 通过研究职业流动的结构， 工作和工人的特点，允许工人 在一组组织中向上爬。 还有， 它考察了模式在多大程度上受形式 组织政策。 这项研究着眼于 这种社会不平等是由职业运动造成的， 与组织政策一致或不一致。 首席研究员借鉴了加州州 公务员数据库，以测试有关 职业动态的本质。 数据库提供 关于正式晋升政策的全面信息， 相关的公务员制度规则和程序，包括 详细的人事记录，描述了 1974年至1979年期间， 1985. 这项研究的结果应该有助于我们 了解社会不平等的原因和性质。 结果还将提供一种手段， 了解平权行动计划的影响， 旨在通过以下方式增加机会的其他干预措施： 修改促销政策。

Recent research on social inequality has focused attention on the role played by organizational promotion policies in shaping career and income histories. While much of this work assumes that promotion policies exert a significant influence on these histories, little evidence exists to support this assumption. Thus, this study addresses the structure of career mobility by looking at the characteristics of jobs and workers that permit workers to move up job ladders within a sample of organizations. Also, it examines the extent to which patterns are guided by formal organizational policies. The study looks at the ways in which social inequality is generated by career movements that are consistent or inconsistent with organizational policies. The Principal Investigator draws on the California State Civil Service data base to test various hypotheses about the nature of career dynamics. The data base provides comprehensive information on formal promotion policies and related Civil Service rules and procedures and includes detailed personnel records describing the career histories of several thousand civil servants during the period 1974 to 1985. The findings from this study should contribute to our understanding of the causes and nature of social inequality. The results will also provide a means by which to better understand the effects of Affirmative Action programs and other interventions aimed at improving opportunities by modifying promotion policies.