Occupational choice, socio-economic status and educational attainment: a study of the occupational choices and destinations of young people in the British Household Panel Survey
Occupational choice, socio-economic status and educational attainment: a study of the occupational choices and destinations of young people in the British Household Panel Survey
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DOI：
10.1080/02671520701755424
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Croll, Paul
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作者：
Croll, Paul
该条考虑了年轻人在15岁时的职业选择与其教育程度、父母的职业以及他们在20岁出头时的实际职业的关系。它使用的数据来自英国家庭小组调查，时间跨度为5至10年。调查中的年轻人在职业上雄心勃勃：许多人渴望专业、管理和技术工作，而不是这些职业的可能存在。一般来说，抱负、教育程度和意图是一致的，但也有许多不一致的情况;要么是人们想要的工作，他们的教育程度和意图不会为他们做好准备，要么是人们的抱负不如他们的教育成绩。来自职业倾向较强的家庭的孩子比其他孩子更有抱负，接受更好的教育，职业成就也更好。然而，如果年轻人既雄心勃勃又在教育上取得成功，那么就业结果对来自弱势家庭的年轻人和来自弱势家庭的年轻人一样好。相比之下，如果年轻人既没有雄心壮志，也没有教育成就，那么来自贫困家庭的年轻人的结果就比其他年轻人差得多。这篇文章表明，虽然选择是真实的，但对许多人来说，它也受到了严重的限制。这项研究的一个可能的教育意义是，职业干预可以针对来自弱势背景的雄心勃勃但有学术能力的年轻人。
The article considers young people's occupational choices at the age of 15 in relation to their educational attainment, the occupations of their parents and their actual occupations when they are in their early 20s. It uses data from the British Household Panel Survey over periods of between five and ten years. The young people in the survey are occupationally ambitious: many more aspire to professional, managerial and technical jobs than the likely availability of these occupations. In general ambitions and educational attainment and intentions are well aligned but there are also many instances of misalignment; either people wanting jobs which their educational attainments and intentions will not prepare them for, or people with less ambitious aspirations than their educational performance would justify. Children from more occupationally advantaged families are more ambitious, achieve better educationally and have better occupational outcomes than other children. However, where young people are both ambitious and educationally successful the occupational outcomes are as good for those from disadvantaged as advantaged families. In contrast, where young people are neither ambitious nor educationally successful, the outcomes for those from disadvantaged homes are very much poorer than for other young people. The article suggests that while choice is real it is also heavily constrained for many people. A possible educational implication of the study is that career interventions could be directed at under-ambitious but academically capable young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.