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Title: The Role of Father's Occupation on Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility: The Case of Second-Generation Chinese Americans in New York
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2009
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Abstract: A considerable body of research has found a positive relationship between parents' socioeconomic status and children's educational achievement and attainment. The predictive role of parents' socioeconomic status generally applies for most racial and ethnic groups, but that association does not always hold for groups that exhibit high levels of education, such as Asian Americans. This article considers the role of parents' education and occupation on children's educational and occupational attainment for Chinese Americans aged 1832. The results corroborate the positive link between parents' socioeconomic status and children's educational and occupational attainments. Children of professionals command an educational and occupational advantage over children of entrepreneurs and children of manual workers. Yet, the children of entrepreneurs attend selective colleges and obtain professional occupations in proportions closely following those of the children of professionals. Although the educational attainments between the fathers who worked as entrepreneurs and those fathers engaged in manual work were comparable, it was the children of entrepreneurs who surpassed the children of manual workers with respect to educational and occupational achievement and attainment. This suggests that immigrant entrepreneurship contributes in the upward educational and occupational mobility of the children of entrepreneurs.
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Authors: Kulkarni, Veena S.; Kim, Dae Y.
Periodical (Full): Sociological Forum
Issue: 1
Volume: 24
Pages: 104 - 134
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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