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Title: Selection into Occupations and the Intergenerational Socioeconomic Mobility of Daughters and Sons

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This paper shows that women experience less upward mobility in socioeconomic status with respect to their parents than men when the status measure places more weight on occupational earnings relative to occupational education, while the opposite holds when education becomes more important in the de finition of occupational status.This holds whether we consider mobility with respect to fathers, mothers or with respect to the average parental status. Results also indicate that this mobility gap has been narrowing for the status measures that put more weight on earnings, and that the mobility advantage for women in education has been increasing. For the most recent cohorts there is no mobility gap when starting salaries are used in the occupational earnings measure. Moreover, while women and men still appear to be choosing di fferent types of occupations, women are not choosing occupations that are characterized by low returns. Women are choosing occupations that off er them the flexibility to work less.

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Authors: Schwenkenberg, Julia M.

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Publication Number: 2013-006

Institution: Rutgers University

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Publisher Location: Newark, NJ

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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