Occupational Mobility in the Life Course of Intermarried Ethnic Minorities

Muttarak, Raya (2011) Occupational Mobility in the Life Course of Intermarried Ethnic Minorities. In: A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 211-238.

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Abstract

Current stratification research usually takes on an individualistic perspective focusing primarily on a social and economic position of individual men and women in the labour market. This approach, however, fails to recognise family and household context that plays a key role in understanding social inequality. Although early stratification research considers the role of family in social stratification, it emphasises only the status of the male family head as a key factor determining a social position of other family members (e.g. Blau and Duncan 1967; Goldthorpe 1980). It was not until recently, that family (all family members as a whole) was recognised as a key unit of analysis in explaining social inequality. Drobnič and Blossfeld (2004) highlight the importance of family properties – the properties of the relationships between individuals in the family – as one mechanism underlying a stratified access to positions in the labour market. Subsequently, they conduct an empirical research investigating how socio-economic assortative matings as well as upward and downward marriages affect labour market achievement of husbands and wives during the family life cycle.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 10 - reduced inequalities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 09 Sep 2017 05:08
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2021 17:23
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64812
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1545-5_10

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