Surveys of Hungarian and U.S. workers examined attitudes toward promotions, flexibility of hours, autonomy at work, economic rewards, and job security in capitalist versus socialist context. Important concerns for Hungarians were flexibility to pursue second jobs and economic incentives, whereas Americans were concerned with promotion…

The dimensions and determinants of positional inequality in the American occupational structure are examined. Using data from the 1972-1973 Quality of Employment Survey, dimensions of occupational differentiation with multiple discriminant analysis are constructed and a causal model is developed to represent the interrelationships of those…