London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training partnership (LISS)
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Organisations are increasingly taking an interest in their “socio-economic diversity” (the socio- economic background (SEB) of their recruits), alongside the more familiar ascribed characteristics of sex, ethnicity, and disability. While one’s sex, membership of an ethnic minority, or disability status can be conceived and measured comparatively easily across countries, often with a legal basis, the same cannot be said for SEB. Currently, multinational and international organisations are having to use SEB indicators developed for the United Kingdom for divisions in countries in North America, Europe, East Asia, and elsewhere.
SEB is normally gauged by asking for the occupation of the main-earning parent when a candidate was aged 14. This information is used to gauge their social class origin based on the employment relations within the occupation.
This project attempts to answer the question: Are SEB indicators developed for the UK context valid across international contexts?
Using quantitative methods and existing large-scale survey data, this project will answer this question, and potentially develop and validate, a new SEB classification that will influence how multinational and international organisations collect SEB data.
The project has four phases:
Phase 1 – assembling and cleaning the data
Phase 2 – developing the classification
Phase 3 – validating the classification
Phase 4 – writing up the results for journal publication
The main activities will be the statistical analysis of existing large-scale secondary datasets and validating detailed parental occupation in a large range of countries by using it to predict adult outcomes (using multivariate regression methods).
Training will be provided and we will have weekly meetings.
The main output will be a scientific publication published in a strong social science or human resource management journal.
The findings of the research will be disseminated to large employers and social mobility stakeholders across countries. There will also be presentations at academic conferences and practitioner workshops.
The intern will be involved in all aspects of the project.
More info: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/internships/measuring-and-benchmarking-socio-economic-diversity-across-countries/