The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations

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Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “…and management consulting reward not only prestigious university credentials, but also “high-status extracurricular activities, polished interactional styles, and personal narratives of passion, self-reliance, and self-actualization” (see also Laurison and Friedman 2016; Rivera and Tilcsik 2016).”
Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality (2016, methodology): “…the findings from the previous section, showing that there is differential access to top jobs by family background, together with the findings of Laurison and Friedman (2016), which show that earnings differ sharply by family background even among those that make it into elite occupations, we…”
Social-Class Disparities in Higher Education and Professional Workplaces: The Role of Cultural Mismatch (2018, background): “Likewise, after college graduation, students from working-class contexts less often gain access to high-status occupations (Rivera, 2012; Rivera & Tilcsik, 2016), and when they do, they confront a persistent “class pay gap” (Laurison & Friedman, 2016).”