Background, earnings, and the American Dream

Article Abstract:

'The American OccupationalStructure' by Peter Blau and Otis Dudley pioneered research on the reality of the American dream of equality of opportunity. A mini-industry of researchers continue to study the interrelationships between family, schooling and attainment in an effort to analyse the American dream of equality based on individual effort and not on inherited status or wealth. Future research, however, must identify background factors that determine long-run earnings as well as specify the casual processes by which long-run economic attainments areinfluenced by these factors.

Research, Influence, Wages, Wages and salaries, Equality

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The influence of 'The American Occupational Structure' on the Wisconsin model

Article Abstract:

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) was influenced bythe basic model of the occupational attainment process developed by Peter Blau and Otis Dudley. The model is developed in chapter five of Blau and Duncan's 'American Occupational Structure' (AOS). It not only predicts sons' occupational attainment but also provides a basic statistical framework for theories of social mobility and for elaborations of it, such as the WLS. In addition, chapter nine of the AOS, 'Kinship and Careers' also started recent research on the influence of family structure on the achievement of siblings.

Causes of, Career development, Occupations

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Gender, family configuration, and the effect of family background on educational attainment

Article Abstract:

A sibling resemblance model that incorporates family influences on educational resemblance is proposed to aid studies made regarding the role of gender, gender composition of sibship and birth order in influencing social origins on educational attainment. Results show that the educational attainment of female siblings substantially differ from the males. Moreover, the educational attainment of parents exerts a major influence on sibling education.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, Education, Educational research, Brothers and sisters

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