Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom
Abstract
Building on research establishing social class origin pay gaps within higher managerial and professional occupations, using a national survey of 3336 higher managerial and professional workers in the United Kingdom, this article documents social class origin gaps in an index of non-pay aspects of job quality. This study finds that those from lower social class origins have a greater propensity to cluster within those higher managerial and professional occupations that generally have higher job quality but are lower paying. However, they have lower job quality than their higher social class origin counterparts through occupying lower quality jobs within occupations. None of the penalty associated with lower social class origins can be accounted for by a rich set of observed factors. Given the centrality of job quality to health and wellbeing, we conclude job quality must factor into research and debates concerning the long shadow of socio-economic background on life chances.
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| When | Event | Field | Old | New |
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| 2026-06-18 19:37:53.011249+00:00 | identifier_assigned | DSEID | DSEID-001-9193010 |