Mechanisms of class background inequality in early occupational careers
Dirk Witteveen is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College. He received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 2018. Witteveen’s research examines social stratification and inequalities in higher education and labor markets of the United States and Europe. It focuses on factors such as class background, race, ethnicity, and gender.
During his time at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Witteveen will conduct research on how “social closure” of workplaces and occupations matter to those entering various European labor markets. In particular, he will investigate the extent to which class background affects a newcomer's success in the job market.
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Mechanisms of class background inequality in early occupational careers
Sociology
Social Mobility
Economic Stratification
Higher Education
Class Inequality
Race and Ethnicity
Witteveen, Dirk, and Paul Attewell. “Black-White Incentive Inequality for College Persistence.” Rationality and Society 34, no. 2 (2022): 155–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631221091225
Witteveen, Dirk. “The Effects of Undergraduate Financing on Advanced Degree Attainment.” Social Forces May 31, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac044
Witteveen, Dirk. “Encouraged or Discouraged? the Effect of Adverse Macroeconomic Conditions on School Leaving and Reentry.” Sociology of Education 94, no. 2 (2020): 103–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040720960718
