ABSTRACT
A recurring hypothesis in research on job mobility is that easily observable characteristics of both jobs and workers matter more for the individual attainment of job rewards when better information about such characteristics is lacking. This chapter examines a description of a simple model of decision-making in the job-worker matching process and the hypotheses derived from it. An occupation may be more desirable because of the relation of derogation accompanying it, with the other associated resources as a bonus. However, because there is popular consensus on the fact that high-ranking occupations are more desirable than others, for whatever the reasons, measures of occupational prestige can safely be seen as indicating the desirability of jobs. The Swedish educational system is characterised by a high degree of standardisation and a low level of stratification. An analysis of the duration dependence of the easily observable covariates has not been made, in spite of the fact that hypotheses about such processes are theoretically plausible.
