The Class Ceiling in the United States: Class-Origin Pay Penalties in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations.
Gender and racial pay penalties are well-known: women (of all races) and people of color (of all genders) earn less, on average, even when they gain access to occupations historically reserved for White men. Studies of social mobility show that people from working-class backgrounds in the US have al...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 22 - 45 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2024
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