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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1827–1854.
Published: 16 August 2019
... show that maternal loss is significantly associated with lower occupational position in adulthood for both men and women, which points to the crucial importance of maternal care in childhood for socioeconomic outcomes in later life. This interpretation is supported by the finding that a stepmother’s...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 347–357.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of male migrants to Monterrey, Mexico, a rapidly growing metropolis in a developing country. A comparison was made between the characteristics of migrants and census information for the origin populations for 1940 and 1960. Overall, in terms of education and occupational position, migrants are positively...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 539–550.
Published: 01 November 1997
... immigrants in New York and black female immigrants in London hold more favorable occupational status. These results reflect differences in (1) the presence of indigenous minorities—African Americans and Puerto Ricans—in New York but not London, and (2) the relatively low position of indigenous minority males...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 295–318.
Published: 18 December 2017
... socioeconomic position at age 35 as predictors of all-cause and cause-specific mortality. The observed part—demographic and socioeconomic factors, including region; number of siblings; native language; parents’ education and occupation; and individuals’ income, occupation, tenancy status, and education—accounts...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 615–625.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... These data are used to answer the question, are socioeconomic variables (husband’s level of education, occupation, and income, for example) more closely correlated with the success of the couple’s family planning than are the variables of positive interaction (agreement, communication, and equality...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 259–270.
Published: 01 May 1984
... differentiation across 124 major American cities. Using log-linear procedures, blacks, relative to whites, are much more likely to be in unskilled and semiskilled manual occupations, while whites, relative to blacks, are far more likely to be in white-collar and upper-status positions. Moreover, blacks’ denial...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1319–1344.
Published: 01 July 2014
... formation during young adulthood. Employing discrete-time event-history methods using the NLSY-97, we find that occupational education is positively associated with transitioning to first marriage and with marrying a college-educated partner for women but not for men. Moreover, occupational education...
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 183–204.
Published: 01 May 1978
... on the characteristics of the total 1970 labor force. Although the two sets of scores are highly correlated, important differences are found in the scores for specific occupations as well as for major occupational groups. Using the traditional list of 12 major occupational categories, we find that the positions...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 73–95.
Published: 16 November 2013
..., increased sharply for manual workers, and occupied varying intermediate positions for the other two subgroups. The old-age component of lifespan variation, however, decreased over the time examined in all occupational classes for both men (panel C) and women (panel D). Despite similar trends, the level...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 87–105.
Published: 01 February 1972
... of the six decades from 1870 to 1930 cross classified by occupational group and sex. The following three conclusions are then drawn from the above two series. First, the socioeconomic position of the foreign-born population of the United States remained relatively stable from 1870 to 1910 but then increased...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 967–988.
Published: 08 May 2015
... have if there were no segregation. If this difference is positive, the group is overrepresented there; otherwise, it is underrepresented. Next, we quantify how much in earnings the group gains (respectively, loses) for being overrepresented (respectively, underrepresented) in that occupation...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1219–1244.
Published: 05 July 2016
... studied the extent to which occupational attainment is determined by family background. The vast majority of these studies have looked at how the social position of one generation is influenced by the social position of their parents (Breen and Jonsson 2005 ; Ganzeboom et al. 1991 ). However, more...
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 179–195.
Published: 01 May 1977
... is not uniform across all social strata: i.e., the positive relationship between relative income and cumulative fertility does not hold true for low educational and occupational groups Table 9.-Percentage of Current Labor Force Status by Relative Income and Parity, for Fecund, Effectively Planned, Native...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 126–134.
Published: 01 March 1967
... of the ever-widowed females by age, occupation, caste, and the number of living children, the standardized widow remarriage rates were obtained. The population of Saharanpur district was taken to be the standard population. As a result of standardization for age, number of living children, and caste...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1093–1115.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in HISCO ( van Leeuwen et al. 2002 ). 1 The HISCO codes were used to classify occupations into a continuous occupation score, HISCAM, as well as a social class scheme, HISCLASS. HISCAM determines the position of an occupation in the overall hierarchy on the basis of social interaction patterns...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 619–639.
Published: 01 August 2008
... further depth of understanding to the“mixed” picture of earnings determination in the low-skill labor market that has been reported by others. On the positive side, many immigrants are employed in similar occupations and industries as natives. Both groups show substantial wage gains over time...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1729–1753.
Published: 12 September 2014
...Jeremy Pais Abstract Cumulative structural disadvantage theory posits two major sources of endogenous selection in shaping racial health disparities: a race-based version of the theory anticipates a racially distinct selection process, whereas a social class-based version anticipates a racially...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1317–1346.
Published: 27 September 2011
.... Previous studies have reported positive, negative, and null effects of retirement on subsequent longevity and mortality hazard, but inconsistent findings are difficult to resolve because (1) nearly all data confound retirement with unemployment of older workers, and often, (2) endogeneity bias is rarely...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1973
... which includes socio- economic status as weIl as a way of life. While other indices of social status would be desirable, there is a paucity of research concerning stratification variables in Latin America (Germani, 1963; Iutaka, 1965), and occupational position remains one of the frequently used indices...
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Demography (1981) 18 (1): 55–66.
Published: 01 February 1981
... as the migration status groups differ according to each of these three characteristics, dif- ferences in the socioeconomic position of migration status groups might reflect compositional differences in age of head, education of head, or size of the house- hold labor force. Adjusted values for occupational pres...
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