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Author: Trotta, Joseph R.
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Socioeconomic Attainment Process Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1978 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Family Influences; Fathers, Influence; Occupational Status; Siblings; Socioeconomic Status (SES) This research investigates the socioeconomic attainment processes of education, occupational status and earnings. Comparisons of these processes are made for race and sex groupings. For educational attainment, it was found that mental ability played the most influential role as compared to the effects of father's and mother's educational attainment, head of household's occupational status and sibship size. The hypothesis that the same-sexed parent had a stronger effect was supported for both races. Overall, black males and females and white females experienced lower rates of return from mental ability as compared to white males. In terms of occupational status attainment, only education and previous occupational status had effects. Labor force experience and number of previous jobs had no effects. The models for white and black males were similar and the model for white and black females were similar. For earnings attainment, only previous earnings and current occupational status exerted effects while no effects were found for education, labor force experience and number of previous jobs. This finding seriously calls into question the human capital perspective which has been heavily utilized in the literature. |
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Trotta, Joseph R. Socioeconomic Attainment Process. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1978. |