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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 8 / 2013 (585)

Occupational mobility networks of female and male higher education graduates

Eliza-Olivia LUNGU
National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Bucharest
Ana-Maria ZAMFIR
National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Bucharest
Cristina MOCANU
National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Bucharest

Abstract. We employ a network based approach to explore occupational mobility of the Romanian university graduates in the first years after graduation. This representation of data permits us to use the novel statistical techniques developed in the framework of weighted directed networks in order to extract a set of stylized facts that highlight patterns of occupational mobility: centrality, degree and network density. We find that the gender plays a significant role in shaping the patterns of occupational mobility.

Keywords: occupational mobility; weighted networks; econophysics.

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