Leping Wang publishes paper in Research in Social Stratification & Mobility
Sociology PhD candidate Leping Wang recently published a single-authored paper titled “Human capital and the upward occupational mobility of rural migrant workers in China” in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. In this paper, she explores the relationship between four human capital factors including formal education, professional training, professional certificates and the knowledge of foreign languages, and the likelihood of upward occupational mobility among rural migrant workers in the urban labor market in China. This study provides an innovative empirical approach to understanding the relationship between human capital and occupational mobility that accounts for the origin and destination occupations of mobility. It also contributes a life course perspective by revealing the link between origin and destination occupations, between education and employment, between the younger and older cohort, and between structural barriers (or incentives) and individual agency for human capital investment. You can read the full paper here.