Family as a source of inequality reproduction in organizations: The role of family impact on work in explaining the class ceiling

• Main Author: MISHRA, Pooja
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: class ceiling; socioeconomic mobility; work-family; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Organization Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/214; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Being born into a poorer family is associated with lower socioeconomic attainment even when people are provided with identical educational and job opportunities, a pattern known as the “class ceiling.” The class ceiling is generated within organizations, but specific reasons causing this effect are...