Rolling Downhill

[From the Archives] Low-Wage Jobs Don't Have to Be Dead-End Jobs

Low-wage workers who gain experience and move to a linked occupation are more likely to experience upward wage mobility.

Jun 20 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

[From the Archive] Employers and Marginalized Workers’ Experience of Tight Labor Markets

A review of Newman & Jacobs' book Moving the Needle

Jun 6 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

May 2025

Vocational Training, Certificates, and Low-Wage Workers’ Mobility

Training-Job Matches and Specific vs General Skills

May 29 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

How much mobility is there?

Mobility Rates Out of Low-Wage Work in the U.S.

May 20 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

4

The Relationship of Low-Wage Work and Poverty

The challenge of individuals and households when studying economic mobility

May 13 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

1

Two Work Lives in the NLSY79

Telling Stories with Longitudinal Data

May 8 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

Crafting Jobs Around People

Miner's (1990) Idiosyncratic Jobs and the Limits of Job Descriptions

May 6 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

3

2

How Many Careers Do Workers Have?

Measuring career continuity across job transitions in the NLSY79 cohort

May 1 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

1

April 2025

Continuous Skills or Discrete Worlds?

Chambliss' ethnographic study of competitive swimming

Apr 29 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

3

Introducing Rolling Downhill

A sociological perspective on economic mobility and the future of work

Apr 23 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

3

October 2024

Beware of the Average: Occupational Characteristics

Originally posted in Oct 2024 on LinkedIn.

Oct 24, 2024 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD

July 2024

Employers and Marginalized Workers’ Experience of Tight Labor Markets

A review of Newman & Jacobs' book Moving the Needle

Jul 24, 2024 • 

Michael A Schultz, PhD