<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper investigates educational and occupational pathways of children of Turkish and Western-Balkan origin and of the majority population in Austria and Switzerland. Using a representative sample of 2186 respondents living in two Swiss and two Austrian urban areas, our results show that descendants of immigrants have less chances to follow a constant successful path from education to occupation in both countries, mainly because successful trajectories are determined by the parent’s socioeconomic status. However, young adults of Turkish and Western Balkan origin in Switzerland are more often upward mobile than the majority group. Altogether, our results indicate slightly greater chances for upward mobility among young adults in Switzerland in comparison to Austria.</p></abstract>

This paper investigates educational and occupational pathways of children of Turkish and Western-Balkan origin and of the majority population in Austria and Switzerland. Using a representative sample of 2186 respondents living in two Swiss and two Austrian urban areas, our results show that descendants of immigrants have less chances to follow a constant successful path from education to occupation in both countries, mainly because successful trajectories are determined by the parent’s socioeconomic status. However, young adults of Turkish and Western Balkan origin in Switzerland are more often upward mobile than the majority group. Altogether, our results indicate slightly greater chances for upward mobility among young adults in Switzerland in comparison to Austria.

Unequal Pathways. School-to-Work Trajectories for Children of Turkish and Western-Balkan Origin in Switzerland and Austria

Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, CH-2000 Neuchâtel

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This paper investigates educational and occupational pathways of children of Turkish and Western-Balkan origin and of the majority population in Austria and...

Unequal Pathways. School-to-Work Trajectories for Children of Turkish and Western-Balkan Origin in Switzerland and Austria

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 266 - 290

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2016-0012

Keywords
Second generation, educational and occupational pathways, social mobility, Switzerland, Austria

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Unequal Pathways. School-to-Work Trajectories for Children of Turkish and Western-Balkan Origin in Switzerland and Austria

Published Online: Jul 06, 2016

Page range: 266 - 290

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2016-0012

KeywordsSecond generation, educational and occupational pathways, social mobility, Switzerland, Austria

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Second generation, educational and occupational pathways, social mobility, Switzerland, Austria