|
Abstract:
|
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the labor market for artists and in the
creative industries more broadly: How important is a formal education for jobs
in the creative industries? How are the careers of people with a creative
education? Do they work in the creative industries or outside the creative
industries? How is the profile of the jobs within the creative industries?
Alper and Wassall (2006) present an overview of the economic, mainly
empirical research concerning the labor market of artists. Different types of
studies can be distinguished: theoretical models of artistic career processes,
qualitative interviews and data, retrospective surveys and panel data based on
surveys (either true panel studies or quasi panel studies).
Some of the most extended studies on artists’ earnings are done by Alper
and Wassall on American census data, where data comes from peoples selfreporting
in surveys, and peoples’ occupation is based on time spent at work
during a single reference week. This do obvious have some drawbacks. Register
data from Statistics Denmark representing true panel data, makes it possible to
overcome some of these problems and gain new knowledge on the career
patterns of artists, their income, the importance of education, multiple jobholding
etc. The register data used in this paper includes a lot of variables on
socio-economy, income, employment etc. for the Danish population in the
period 1994-2003. The paper includes a discussion and delimitation of artist and
the creative industries, and presents new empirical results on the labor market for artists and in the creative industries |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
