Title | Transmitting inequality: An asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic inequality and its intergenerational transmission |
Publication Type | Thesis |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Elmelech, Y |
Date Published | 2002 |
University | Columbia University |
Keywords | Adult children, Demographics, Net Worth and Assets, Public Policy |
Abstract | This dissertation explores the determinants and socioeconomic consequences of inequality in material assets among middle-aged American households. Using survey data from the Health and Retirement study (HRS), and utilizing suitable quantitative techniques, this study establishes a conceptual ground which brings back the critical role private property and kinship relations play in contemporary stratification processes. This study shows that in the contemporary post-transitional, multi-asset society, two social mechanisms of closure and exclusion--marriage and inheritance--intervene in the connection between position in the labor market and position in the commodity market. Because the structure and the socioeconomic function of the family vary across racial/ethnic lines, I argue that the framework developed in this study is especially useful to the understanding of racial and ethnic inequality and its perpetuation across generations. |
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Endnote Keywords | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies (0628) |
Endnote ID | 5005 |
Endnote Author Address | ISBN 0-493-50617-9 |
Short Title | Transmitting inequality: An asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic inequality and its intergenerational transmission |
Citation Key | 6286 |