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Volume 11, Issue 1-2
1 January 1988
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Review Article| January 01 1988

Careers Open to Talent? Family Background and Pay in America and Britain Available to Purchase

W.S. Siebert
W.S. Siebert
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6135
Print ISSN: 0140-9174
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Management Research News (1988) 11 (1-2): 47–48.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027962

The study is concerned with contrasting and explaining the influence of family background on pay in America and Britain. A particular concern of the study is whether Britain is too “difficult” for those without family connections in the business world to become managers.

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Careers, Social classes, USA, United Kingdom
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