Social Mobility via Elite Placements: Working Class Graduates in Elite Accounting and Banking Firms

Autor/inn/en	Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi
Titel	Social Mobility via Elite Placements: Working Class Graduates in Elite Accounting and Banking Firms
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 28 (2019) 5, S.508-531 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2019.1661857
Schlagwörter	College Graduates; Social Mobility; Accounting; Banking; Working Class; Recruitment; Student Employment; Job Placement; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Ethnicity; Program Length; Personnel Selection; Social Capital; Employment Potential; Employer Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Grade Point Average; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Soziale Mobilität; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Bankgeschäft; Arbeiterklasse; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Studentenarbeit; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ethnizität; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Sozialkapital; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Ausland
Abstract	Little research attention has been paid to the effect of yearlong placements in elite accounting firms and investment banks on the social mobility of working class graduates. Using the framework of Bourdieu, this paper examines the link between placements and employment destinations of eight cohorts of accounting and finance graduates from a non-elite British university. We find that elite professions are most likely to recruit graduates who have already gained the 'right' professional habitus through the successful completion of yearlong placements in the same elite firms in that particular field and/or with better degree averages. Social mobility of working class graduates taking an elite placement is evident after controlling for gender, age, ethnicity and degree average. The findings indicate that working class graduates need to consciously and continuously modify their class specific dispositions so that they can fully engage with higher education and elite placement experiences to achieve social mobility. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01