The Equalizing Power of a College Degree for First-Generation College Students: Disparities Across Institutions, Majors, and Achievement Levels

Manzoni, Anna; Streib, Jessi

doi:10.1007/s11162-018-9523-1

Cited by 36 publications

(34 citation statements)

References 57 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Several gains, when multiplied, can produce large gaps. Manzoni and Streib (2019) argued that rather than focusing on changing where students attend college and what they major in, we should help direct students toward the highest paying industries and firms. Although this may not be incorrect, we show that much will need to be done to dampen the signaling power of consequential thresholds.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry, Firm, Job Title: The Layered Nature of Early-Career Advantage for Graduates of Elite Private Universities

Davis

Binder

2019

Socius

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using concepts associated with effectively maintained inequality theory and horizontal stratification, the authors ask whether the private-public dividing line is a “threshold of consequence” for early-career market entry. To address this empirically, the authors use a novel LinkedIn data set to analyze job pathways for the graduating class of 2016 from the top 25 private and top 25 public universities in the United States. In line with past qualitative research, the authors find evidence that elite private graduates enter high-status industries in greater proportion than their public university counterparts. They also tend to get jobs at more prestigious and higher paying firms and to attain more prestigious job titles. On the basis of the evidence, the authors call for more closely analyzing the layers of advantage that may accumulate to elite graduates during key transitional moments, such as during the postgraduation job search. The authors also shed additional light on how the private-public divide is a threshold of consequence for university graduates.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry, Firm, Job Title: The Layered Nature of Early-Career Advantage for Graduates of Elite Private Universities

Davis

Binder

2019

Socius

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We cannot rule out the notion that social inequalities emerge again in the later stages of the life course. Also, social disparities may go beyond occupational stratification, that is, emerge when considering different labour market sectors, different employment statuses, and different geographic locations as has been examined by Manzoni and Streib (2018) in the US context. Given the insights gained by applying a dynamic perspective on the career progression of graduates, we suggest that longitudinal approaches on intergenerational mobility need to be further developed, both theoretically and empirically, to gain a better understanding of underlying mechanisms on when and how social inequalities emerge, increase or even decline over the life-course.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is the greatest for STEM fields, smallest for education fields and health sciences with arts and humanities in between. A recent study in the US by Manzoni and Streib () showed no differences by parental education in earnings ten years after graduation for graduates in STEM majors but identified an earnings advantage for male graduates in arts and humanities with highly educated parents over their peers from less‐educated families.…”

Section: Previous Research: Social Origin Field Of Study and Labour mentioning

confidence: 98%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Social origin, field of study and graduates’ career progression: does social inequality vary across fields?

Jacob

Klein

2019

British Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Research on stratification and mobility has consistently shown that in the UK there is a direct impact of social origin on occupational destination net of educational attainment even for degree‐holders. However, only a few studies applied a longitudinal and dynamic perspective on how intergenerational mobility shapes graduates’ working careers. Using multilevel growth curve modelling and data from the 1970 British cohort study (BCS70), we contribute to this research by looking at the emergence of social inequalities during the first ten years since labour market entry. We further distinguish between graduates of different fields of study as we expect social disparities to develop differently due to differences in initial occupational placement and upward mobility processes. We find that parental class does not affect occupational prestige over and above prior achievement. Separate analyses by the field of study show that initial differences in occupational prestige and career progression do not differ between graduates from different classes of origin in STEM fields, and arts and humanities. It is only in the social sciences that working‐class graduates start with lower occupational prestige but soon catch up with their peers from higher classes. Overall, our results indicate no direct effect of social origin on occupational attainment for degree‐holders once we broaden our focus to a dynamic life course perspective.

show abstract

“…It is the greatest for STEM fields, smallest for education fields and health sciences with arts and humanities in-between. A recent study in the US by Manzoni and Streib (2018) showed no differences by parental education in earnings ten years after graduation for graduates in STEM majors but identified a earnings advantage for male graduates in arts and humanities with highly educated over their peers from less educated families. Similarly, Hällsten (2013) found that the effect of the class of origin on wages in the Swedish labour market is more substantial for graduates from humanities and arts than for graduates from the sciences.…”

Section: Graduates' Field Of Study and Career Progressionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Social Origin, Field of Study and Career Progression: Heterogeneity in Graduates’ Occupational Mobility

Jacob¹,

Klein²

2019

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Research on stratification and mobility has consistently shown that there is a direct impact of social origin on occupational destination net of educational attainment even for degree-holders. However, only a few studies applied a longitudinal and dynamic perspective on how intergenerational mobility shapes graduates’ working careers. Using multilevel growth curve modelling and data from the 1970 British cohort study (BCS70), we contribute to this research by looking at the emergence of social inequalities during the first ten years since labour market entry. We further distinguish between graduates of different fields of study as we expect social disparities to develop differently due to differences in initial occupational placement and upward mobility processes. We find that parental class does not affect occupational prestige over and above prior achievement. Separate analyses by the field of study show that initial differences in occupational prestige and career progression do not differ between graduates from different classes of origin in STEM fields and arts and humanities. It is only in the social sciences that working class graduates start with lower occupational prestige but soon catch up with their peers from higher classes. Overall, our results indicate no direct effect of social origin on occupational attainment for degree-holders once we broaden our focus to a dynamic life course perspective.

show abstract

The Equalizing Power of a College Degree for First-Generation College Students: Disparities Across Institutions, Majors, and Achievement Levels

Cited by 36 publications

References 57 publications

Industry, Firm, Job Title: The Layered Nature of Early-Career Advantage for Graduates of Elite Private Universities

Industry, Firm, Job Title: The Layered Nature of Early-Career Advantage for Graduates of Elite Private Universities

Social origin, field of study and graduates’ career progression: does social inequality vary across fields?

Social Origin, Field of Study and Career Progression: Heterogeneity in Graduates’ Occupational Mobility

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About