劳动力市场转型与社会固化的维持
——以美国为例
百年新声
系列讲座
主讲人：
魏来
香港大学社会学系
助理教授
劳动力市场转型与社会固化的维持
——以美国为例
时间：12月26日（周四）14:00~15:30
地点：清华大学熊知行楼109
Abstract:
Intergenerational income mobility in the US has remained stable in recent decades. Seeing education as the primary mechanism of intergenerational persistence, earlier literature in social stratification tried to explain the stability by exploring the various forms of continuing educational inequality by family background. I refer to this school of intellectual enterprise as effective immobility maintenance (EIM). Insightful as EIM is, other important channels of status reproduction are understudied.
In this research, I extend the EIM framework to investigate the role of the labor market. The framework contends that parents pass on their income to offspring by nurturing abilities that the market values, securing their children occupations that have high monetary returns, and adapting their focus as the demands in the market shift. I test the conjecture in the case of the US labor market, which is experiencing a transformation in labor market demands. Using data from various sources, I find support for EIM through labor market. The skill and occupational advantages of rich children are changing in accordance with the demand of the labor market. This adaptation to labor market environment accounts for the constancy in intergenerational income immobility over time.
讲者简介：
魏来，香港大学社会学系助理教授。2018年毕业于清华大学，获社会学学士学位；2024年毕业于普林斯顿大学，获社会学博士学位。他的研究课题包括社会分层、量化方法以及计算社会科学，尤其是社会不平等研究的因果推断方法。
来源丨清华社会学
审核丨张旭冉 黄泽宇
