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Title: The Effect of Differential Fertility on Group Occupational Mobility
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Herting, Jerald R. |
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The Effect of Differential Fertility on Group Occupational Mobility Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 1987. Also: http://www.soc.washington.edu/users/herting/hertingcv.pdf Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Fertility; Mobility; Mobility, Occupational; Racial Differences This dissertation incorporates the effects of differential fertility by occupation on social mobility. The dissertation addresses how this demographic factor may influence a sub-population's overall upward or downward movement in the stratification system and how ignoring this factor may influence analyses based upon the father to son mobility table. Using data from the 1973 Occupational Change in a Generation and from the NLS of Older Men and Young Men I examine the mobility experience of fathers and sons for three cohorts of blacks and three cohorts of whites. I employ three distinct techniques: a continuous mathematical representation of the mobility process, a technique that adjusts for differential fertility in the margins of father-son crosstabulations, and a log-linear model which incorporates a dimension that reflects differential supply of sons. Simulations using the mathematical model show interesting effects of a population's initial average occupational status and status distribution. Applied to U.S. blacks, the model shows that for blacks as a whole differential fertility weakens the positive effect of recent changes in social mobility for individual blacks. The technique to adjust for the marginals in an intergenerational mobility table provides further support for the impact of differential fertility on the social mobility of blacks. The log-linear model, however, suggests only slight effects of the dimension representing differential fertility. [UMI ADG88-02249] |
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Herting, Jerald R. The Effect of Differential Fertility on Group Occupational Mobility. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 1987.. |