Restoring culture and capital to cultural capital: origin–destination cultural distance and immigrant earnings in the United States.
An extensive sociological literature maintains that cultural capital is pivotal in perpetuating social inequalities. However, empirical tests of cultural capital theory focus on how culture influences educational outcomes, not earnings, and they mainly look for cultural differences across social cla...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 16; pp. 4041 - 4070 |
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