Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents’                     Educations and Occupations and Their Children's Occupational                     Attainment

Lampard, Richard

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“…[ Tables 1-2 Thus, like Lampard (2007a), this article indicates a key role for parental education in the intergenerational transmission of social position. However, the small difference in fit between Models 6 and 8 (see Table 2) indicates a relatively small effect specific to parental class; both this effect and the overall impact of parental class on salariat attainment are markedly less substantial than in an earlier study (Lampard, 2007a: Table 2).…”

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“…Analyses of intergenerational class mobility in Britain (e.g. Goldthorpe and Mills, 2008;Kuha and Goldthorpe, 2010) still tend to focus on father's occupation or the 'dominant' parental occupation (Erikson, 1984); however, internationally, authors examining occupational outcomes have highlighted the desirability of taking into account both parents' characteristics (Lampard, 2007a;Schoon, 2008;Beller, 2009;Marks, 2009). …”

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“…In Britain, educational attainment studies routinely include both parents’ educational levels; internationally, parental education also increasingly features in analyses of occupational outcomes (Beller, 2009; Korupp et al, 2002; Lampard, 2007a; Marks, 2009), with mother’s education sometimes providing ‘class-related’ information when maternal occupations are not considered. While some authors (e.g.…”

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Parental Characteristics, Family Structure and Occupational Attainment in Britain

Lampard

2012

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This article uses multivariate logistic regression analyses of the 2005 General Household Survey to assess the impact of parents’ occupational and educational characteristics on occupational attainment in Britain, focusing specifically on the salariat. Differences in outcomes according to family structure are then examined, controlling for such parental characteristics. The results indicate that both parents’ characteristics are relevant, and that their effects interact. A smaller chance of a salariat occupation is evident for those who lived in a lone-mother family, lone-father family, or biological-mother stepfamily as a young teenager, reflecting different features of these family types, but consistently reflecting lower educational attainment. Both number of co-resident siblings and parental worklessness affect the odds of having a salariat occupation, this being relevant to family-type comparisons.

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2012

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“…Parental education correlates with several other factors such as income, occupation, culture and social resources that matter in a life-cycle perspective. Lampard's (2007) examination of the direct and indirect effects of parents' education and social classes on children's occupational attainment in a British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) has shown that parental education plays a substantial role in the inter-generational transmission of advantage, and has indicated that part (but not all) of the relationship between class origin and occupational attainment can be explained in terms of the inter-generational transmission of cultural capital. Data from the Columbia County Longitudinal Study have revealed a strong relationship between parents' educational level and children's occupation.…”

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“…A number of social, cultural and economic variables have been identified that associate with movement between social classes, and IQ, educational level as well as childhood social background have all been implicated (Jaeger & Holm, 2003;Nettle, 2003;Richards & Sacker, 2003;Deary et al, 2005;Lampard, 2007;Wolniak et al, 2008;Johnson et al, 2010;von Stumm et al, 2010;Forrest et al, 2011;Sorjonen et al, 2011). In general, the evidence suggests that childhood intelligence, social class of origin and educational qualifications predict status attainment in adulthood.…”

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Biosocial Correlates of Inter-Generational Social Mobility in a British Cohort

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Mascie‐Taylor

2013

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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The relationship between inter-generational social mobility of sons and daughters between 1958 and 1991 and biosocial variables, i.e. birth order, number of children in family, father's social class, region, educational attainment of child and father, educational and cognitive test scores (reading, mathematics, verbal and non-verbal IQ tests), was studied in a large British cohort study. The data used were collected as part of the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). The extent of social class mobility was determined inter-generationally and was categorized as none (no change in social class between the father's and index child's social class), upwardly mobile (where the index child moved up one or more social classes compared with their father) or downwardly mobile (where the index child moved down one or more social classes compared with their father). All of the biosocial variables were associated with social mobility when analysed separately. Multivariate analyses revealed that the most significant predictor of mobility categories in both sexes was education of the cohort member, followed by social class of the father. In both sexes mathematics score was a significant predicator, while in sons reading and non-verbal IQ scores were also important predictors. In the light of these results, it appears that social mobility in Britain takes place largely on meritocratic principles.

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Trapped in Place? Ethnic and Educational Heterogeneity in Residential Mobility and Integration of Young Adults in Brussels

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Gadeyne

2024

Eur J Population

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Spatial assimilation theory asserts that immigrants’ socioeconomic progress leads to residential adaptation and integration. This association has proven robust in USA and European urban areas through much of the twentieth century, but drastic change of ethnic and class compositions yet persistent (neighbourhood) inequality in the urban landscape urge us to reconsider the dynamic interaction between stability and change. In this study, we investigate to what extent education shapes residential mobility differently for young adults with varying ethnic and social origins. Focussing on Brussels, we use multinomial logistic regressions on linked longitudinal population-based censuses from 1991 and 2001 and register data for the period 2001–2006. Analyses show that dispersal away from poor inner-city neighbourhoods appears least likely for the offspring of poor low-educated non-Western households, regardless of their own educational attainment. While our approach roughly confirms traditional arguments of socio-spatial integration, it also reveals how educational success generates opportunities to escape poor neighbourhoods for some but not for others. With this, it points at the subtle ways in which factors and mechanisms in traditional spatial assimilation theory affect residential behaviour of young adults over their life course, at the intersection of specific locales, ethnic groups, social classes and generations.

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Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents’ Educations and Occupations and Their Children's Occupational Attainment

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Parental Characteristics, Family Structure and Occupational Attainment in Britain

Parental Characteristics, Family Structure and Occupational Attainment in Britain

Biosocial Correlates of Inter-Generational Social Mobility in a British Cohort

Trapped in Place? Ethnic and Educational Heterogeneity in Residential Mobility and Integration of Young Adults in Brussels

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