The Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Status and Sex-Typing at Children's Labour Market Entry

Abstract

To what extent do the mother's and father's jobs and occupational sextyping influence the status and sex-typing of their children's occupation at first entry into the labour market? Referring to a database containing 5027 respondents of two merged Dutch surveys held between 1992 and 1995, this study finds that the effect of the mother's occupational status on her daughter's is significant, but smaller than either the effect of father's status on his son's or his daughter's status. The mother's occupational sex-typing is related to her daughter's occupational sex-typing. The more female sex-typed the daughter's occupation, the lower her occupational status. In the same way, the father's occupational sextyping is related to his son's occupational sex-typing. While the extension of the classical status attainment models by the mother's occupation and occupational sex-typing leads to interesting and new coefficients, the authors conclude that the more elementary classical model is not invalidated by these new perspectives.KEY WORDS education x first occupation x historical trends x individual model x occupational sex-typing x path model x status attainment The European Journal of Women's Studies

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