Research project Careers in the Swedish labor market from the 1960's and onward: From stability to instability?

A common picture of today's labor market is that careers have become more complex in contrast to the labor market of the past characterized by permanent jobs with few shifts between jobs and employment statuses. The pace of change is often assumed to be rapid. But is this correct? Our overall research question is whether the Swedish labor market has gone from stability to instability in terms of both early and mid-life careers and how this differ for women and men, those with and without immigration background, and in various local labor markets. By doing analyzes focusing on time from education to job, length of employment spells, and career patterns, we shed light on changes for birth cohorts born from the 1940s and onwards. Our analyses are based on register data and the occupational biographies in the Level of Living Surveys.