Sociology of Occupations

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: SJES007 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)

Language: English

This session invites papers about detailed occupations, analyzing tasks, skills, and, of course, inequalities. We are particularly interested in new data sources such as administrative data, job postings, texts, and data registries that contain fine distinctions among occupations.
Session Organizer:
Mike HOUT, New York University, USA
Oral Presentations
Of Jobs and Men: An AI-Assisted Approach for Studying Skills Mismatch in Hong Kong
Duoduo XU, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Skill Transformation and Precarious Employment in China: A New Form of Segmented Labor Market in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Peng WANG, Fudan University, China; Antao LI, Fudan University, China
Gender Stereotyping in the Labor Market: A Descriptive Analysis of Almost One Million Job Ads across 710 Occupations and Occupational Positions
Andreas DAMELANG, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Ann-Katrin RÜCKEL, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Michael STOPS, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany
Dynamic Mapping of Class and Occupation: A New Measurement of Class Using Occupational Text Data
Di ZHOU, New York University, USA
Distributed Papers
Technological Introduction and within-Firm Economic Rewards: Do Occupational Classes Matter?
Lorenzo BERNABEI, University of Trento, Italy
Occupational Earning Potential: A New Measure of Social Hierarchy Applied to Europe
Daniel OESCH, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Oliver LIPPS, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Roujman SHAHBAZIAN, Associate senior lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden; Erik BIHAGEN, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Sweden; Katy MORRIS, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
A Large Scale, High Quality U.S. Occupational Database: Results from Merged IRS and ACS Write-Ins
Mike HOUT, New York University, USA; David GRUSKY, Stanford University, USA; Ananda MARTIN-CAUGHEY, New York University, USA
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