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A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and IntegrationOccupational Mobility in the Life Course of Intermarried Ethnic Minorities

A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration: Occupational Mobility in the Life Course... [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.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and IntegrationOccupational Mobility in the Life Course of Intermarried Ethnic Minorities

Editors: Wingens, Matthias; Windzio, Michael; de Valk, Helga; Aybek, Can
Muttarak, Raya
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration — Jun 7, 2011
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-94-007-1544-8
Pages
211 –238
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1545-5_10
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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.]

Published: Jun 7, 2011

Keywords: Labour Market; Social Capital; Immigrant Woman; Labour Market Outcome; Occupational Mobility

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