occupational mobility
The ability of workers to change jobs, careers, or professions, often to adapt to changing economic conditions.
speakingWork and economy
IELTS use
Useful in advanced speaking about labour markets and career flexibility.
Examples
- High occupational mobility is common in the technology sector.
- Occupational mobility allows workers to reskill and find new opportunities.
- Government policies can encourage occupational mobility through training subsidies.
- The study measured occupational mobility across different age groups.
Collocations
- high occupational mobility
- High occupational mobility is typical in growing economies.
- low occupational mobility
- Low occupational mobility can lead to unemployment.
- occupational mobility rate
- The occupational mobility rate increased after the training programme.
- promote occupational mobility
- The government aims to promote occupational mobility.
Word family
- Noun
- mobility
- Adjective
- occupational, mobile
Paraphrases
- career flexibility: Focuses on adaptability.
- job mobility: Similar, but slightly broader.
- ability to change professions: Explicit, longer paraphrase.
Common mistakes
- He has high occupational mobility. to He has high occupational mobility.. This is correct when referring to an individual or group.
- Occupational mobility is important for the economy. to Occupational mobility is important for the economy.. This sentence is correct.
- The mobility occupational is low. to Occupational mobility is low.. Adjective must come before the noun in English.