Alternative ways of modeling mobility

Article Abstract:

'The American Occupational Structure' relate three dependent variables to each other and to two exogenous variables as a basic model. To expand this basic model, the mechanisms and variables which allow the father's socioeconomic status to be translated into the son's education must be filled as well as the mechanisms and variables that translate the father's background and the son's education into socioeconomic status in the son's first job. In addition, the mechanisms and variables in the first and second relationship including those affecting the son's education and status in his first job affecting the son's socioeconomic status at the date of interview, must also befilled.

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Race, poverty and 'The American Occupational Structure.' (Symposium)

Article Abstract:

'The American Occupational Structure' (AOS) by PeterBlau and Otis Duncan examines the importance of race and poverty although they are not the central topics. Blau and Duncan focus on the process through which family background as compared to educational attainment and initial occupation determine current occupational status. They also examine the possibility of poverty being inherited and the importance of race and discrimination in the attainment process. The major contribution of AOS to poverty research, however,is its emphasis on the dynamic nature of the status-attainment process across generations and the indvdual life cycle.

Influence, Poverty, Race

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New methods for the analysis of occupational mobility tables and other kindsof cross-classifications

Article Abstract:

The analysis of occupational mobility tables by Peter Blau and Otis Duncan is one of their methodological contributions which has been developed to obtain relevant models and methods. Blau and Duncan dealt with the measurement of analysis of occupational mobility in their work 'The American Occupational Structure' (AOS) through descriptive analyses, mobility indexes, mobility and class boundaries as well as scaling occupational and graphical displays. Since the publication of AOS, however, progress in the analysis of mobility tables and other cross-classification tables has been usedto develop relevant models and methods.

Social aspects, Occupations

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