Career Mobility in Italy

Barone, Carlo; Lucchini, Mario; Schizzerotto, Antonio

doi:10.1080/14616696.2011.568254

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“…However, we suggest that there is a more critical aspect to Italian education that shapes parents’ involvement attitudes and practices: Italian studies reveal a rather weak link between educational attainment and future careers (Barone et al, 2011). Research has criticized Italy for a substantial lack of mobility with education, showing that one’s social origins and family status play a greater role in accessing the job market and other services than one’s individual skills and education (Cappellari, 2004; Checchi, 2003; Sylos Labini, 2008).…”

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confidence: 76%

Investing in children’s future: Cross-cultural perspectives and ideologies on parental involvement in education

Kremer‐Sadlik

Fatigante

2013

Childhood

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Drawing on two ethnographic studies of everyday middle-class family life in Los Angeles and Rome, this cross-cultural study examines parents’ practices of and beliefs about involvement in children’s education. It analyzes parents’ interviews and naturalistic video recordings of parent–child interactions at home to access parents’ perspectives on and ways of enacting involvement in school-related activities. Findings indicate that while the LA and Rome parents engaged in similar practices, their involvement in their children’s education was experienced differently and motivated by different assumptions. The article argues that differences in parents’ perceptions and practices reflect and reproduce marked cultural preferences and expectations within the local education systems and reveal distinct ideologies regarding childhood. Drawing on Halldén, the study proposes that LA parents tended to treat childhood as a period of ‘preparation’ for adulthood where there is more deliberate shaping of a child’s path, displaying a belief that children’s future much depends on present actions. Rome parents tended to view their child less as a project that they needed to work on, leaving room for children’s autonomy and freedom. Finally, the study argues that the examination of local sociocultural and institutional contexts offers a more comprehensive and situated interpretation of Italian and US parents’ choices and actions

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Investing in children’s future: Cross-cultural perspectives and ideologies on parental involvement in education

Kremer‐Sadlik

Fatigante

2013

Childhood

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“…McGuinness and Wooden (2009) illustrate how early transitions resulting in skill mismatch have long-term consequences that render it difficult for young people to make up for the costs of an early mismatch in their later careers. Empirical evidence shows that beginning a professional career with a "bad job" (i.e., low skilled, low paid, or both) can become a career trap (Scherer 2004;Blossfeld et al 2008;Gash 2008;Barbera, Filandri, and Negri 2010;Barone, Lucchini, and…”

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Youth transitions and job quality

Filandri¹,

Nazio²,

O’Reilly³

2018

Youth Labor in Transition

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This chapter explores how youth unemployment, discontinuous employment, and working in low-quality jobs affect individuals’ subsequent occupational conditions. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal EU-SILC data (2005–2012) for five countries, the chapter distinguishes between different types of good and bad jobs, examining the effect of family background on successful transitions. Findings show that young people from families of higher social class have better chances of making transitions into good-quality jobs than do youth from lower class families. Securing a good entry job is crucial to achieving a successful outcome, whereas experiencing either brief periods of unemployment or employment continuity has limited effects. These mechanisms are evident across all countries considered. The findings reinforce established knowledge on patterns of stratification, evidencing a direct channel of social transmission of inequalities through education and an indirect channel through better labor market entries.

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“…In that case, it will speak against the idea that the selectivity of the higher education institution is merely a signal for future productivity to employers. In recent years, scholars of social stratification increasingly used multilevel growth curve analysis -a more holistic approach of modeling occupational attainment over the life course -to examine interand intra-generational mobility simultaneously (Barone et al 2011;Härkönen et al 2016;Härkönen and Bihagen 2011;Manzoni et al 2014;Passaretta et al 2018;Schulz et al 2015;Schulz and Maas 2010).…”

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Who benefits from attending elite universities? Family background and graduates’ career trajectories

Klein

2021

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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The literature on social stratification has paid considerable attention to whether and to what extent attending prestigious universities is advantageous for graduates' labor market returns. This paper contributes to the literature by applying a more dynamic perspective in asking whether graduates from prestigious and less prestigious universities differ in their career progression across fourteen years since labor market entry. It further investigates whether graduating from prestigious universities pays off more or less for graduates from different educational backgrounds. The positive selection hypothesis suggests that students most likely to attend prestigious universities will benefit the most. The negative selection hypothesis suggests the opposite. Using multilevel growth curve modeling and the 1970 British Cohort Study (N = 939), the findings show no discernible differences in occupational prestige between graduates from diverse universities. If at all, there is a small Russell Group premium restricted to the early working career. This early Russell Group premium is only found among first-generation graduates providing evidence for the negative selection hypothesis.

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Career Mobility in Italy

Cited by 41 publications

References 9 publications

Investing in children’s future: Cross-cultural perspectives and ideologies on parental involvement in education

Investing in children’s future: Cross-cultural perspectives and ideologies on parental involvement in education

Youth transitions and job quality

Who benefits from attending elite universities? Family background and graduates’ career trajectories

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