ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the changes in the structure of the Dutch labour market between 1981 and 1993. It focuses on the occupational structure of the labour force with a certain educational background. The chapter presents an overview of the quantitative changes between 1981 and 1993. It discusses the measurement of the size of the occupational domain and the similarities between the occupational domains of different types of education. The chapter provides an example of a changing overlapping structure. It describes the changes in the occupational structure, and analyses the developments in similarity between types of education. The extent of the occupational domain is measured by an index which is closely connected to the indicator for switching opportunities introduced by J. Warnken and Andries de Grip and Hans Heijke. The overlap in the occupational domain is measured by the similarity index introduced in Lex Borghans.
