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Title: Educational Growth and Cohort Changes of Social Structure in France and United-States (1968-2000)
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2001
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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to underline the impact of educational and of labour market fluctuations on (male) birth cohorts born between 1910 & 1970 in United-States and France. These different cohorts entered in the labour force and have been socialised during different periods characterised by dissimilar contexts: they have known different school opportunities, different collective life-chances on labour markets and the further trajectories have been affected by the historical pattern. There have been important non-linear variations of the access probabilities to longer education ant to the highest social positions (for example in terms of access rates to EGP class I or I + II). Because the speed of growth of educational expansion and of higher social strata could be different, we can observe important variations of the absolute or gross social value of education (the probabilities of access to highest social classes for a given level of education). For that purpose, age-period-cohort (APC) models are applied to show non linear trends by cohorts. Even if national specificity exists, age-period-cohort models show:- the specific impact of national policies of education on the new young cohorts;- the importance of market expansion or shortage for the transition after school of the different cohorts;- the changes in the social value of education (in terms of access-probabilities to the higher strata).
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Authors: Chauvel, Louis
Conference Name: Euresco Conference
Publisher Location: Kerkrade, Netherlands
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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