Arne Kalleberg

About

Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds Adjunct Professorships in the Department of Public Policy, Curriculum in Global Studies, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School. In addition to his academic roles, he serves as the Editor of Social Forces, an International Journal of Social Research. His work and expertise are centered around social stratification, mobility, and labor markets, with a focus on issues related to precarious lives and work, inequality, and policy responses to these challenges. His contact information includes an email at arne_kalleberg@unc.edu, a phone number (919) 962-0630, and an office address at 261 Hamilton Hall, Department of Sociology (CB # 3210).

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Sociology
• Labour economics
• Anthropology
• Political economy
• Gender studies
• Market economy
• Geography
• Law

Selected publications

• Precarious work: A global perspective

  Sociology Compass · 2023 · 46 citations

  Abstract Precarious work is universal, though its forms and consequences vary across countries due to institutional, cultural, and historical differences. This article reviews recent research on precarious work from a global perspective, emphasizing the comparative and interdisciplinary research needed for a comprehensive understanding of the structural transformations in contemporary capitalism that promote precarious work. The article has three foci. First, research that details the diverse fo…

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• Labor Market Uncertainties and Youth Labor Force Experiences: Lessons Learned

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2020 · 37 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Labor market uncertainties have plagued all countries in recent years, but young workers have borne the brunt of these uncertainties. Liberalization of labor markets has transformed work, creating a variety of nonstandard employment relations as well as increasing the number of people who do not have traditional employers. Macro social, political, and economic forces have also made it harder for young adults to gain solid footholds in the labor market. The articles in this issue of The ANNALS pr…

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• “Stepping-Stone” versus “Dead-End” Jobs: Occupational Structure, Work Experience, and Mobility Out of Low-Wage Jobs

  American Sociological Review · 2024-03-22 · 15 citations

  articleOpen access

  Does working in a low-wage job lead to increased opportunities for upward mobility, or is it a dead-end that traps workers? In this article, we examine whether low-wage jobs are “stepping-stones” that enable workers to move to higher-paid jobs that are linked by institutional mobility ladders and skill transferability. To identify occupational linkages, we create two measures of occupational similarity using data on occupational mobility from matched samples of the Current Population Survey (CPS…

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• Labour market inequality: a comparative political economy perspective

  Oxford Open Economics · 2024 · 14 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Large and rising earnings and employment inequalities in countries such as the USA and the UK pose fundamental questions for social scientists and challenges for policymakers. Mainstream economists have explained these outcomes mainly in terms of competitive market forces, particularly the mismatch between technology-driven demands for skills and those supplied by workers. In contrast, political economy perspectives focus on employer–employee bargaining power, driven by the monopsony po…

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• Institutions, Labor Market Insecurity, and Well-Being in Europe

  Social Sciences · 2022-05-31 · 10 citations

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  We examined the differences among seventeen European countries regarding the extent to which several key institutional and labor market characteristics affect the degrees of insecurity that people feel about their jobs and employment prospects, as well as their well-being (economic security and subjective well-being). We estimate how macrostructural factors affect well-being by fitting random-intercept multi-level models and decomposing the variance across national and individual levels, using d…

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Frequent coauthors

• Ivar Berg

  25 shared

• Peter V. Marsden

  24 shared

• Kevin Hewison

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  18 shared

• Eileen Appelbaum

  16 shared

• Kwang‐Yeong Shin

  14 shared

• Peter Berg

  13 shared

• David Knoke

  12 shared

• Susan N. Houseman

  12 shared

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