Extant literature points to the gender, parenthood, and social status of job applicants as
crucial factors influencing employers' hiring preferences and behaviours. However, little is …

First-generation and working-class undergraduates not only experience mental health
problems at higher rates than their more affluent peers, but are also less likely to seek …

Lower class students are less likely to attend university than their higher class counterparts,
even adjusting for academic performance. I argue this is due to “status beliefs”–widely-held …

De Mello_Tanya_J_202011_PhD_thesis Page 1 The Fit Interview and Cultural Matching:
Examining Equity in Hiring Processes in Law Firms in Canada by Tanya Jo-Anna De Mello A …

Employees' social class backgrounds remain a critical but often overlooked source of
inequality in white-collar workplaces: employees from working-class backgrounds are less …

The thesis explores the lived experiences of first-generation African cultural entrepreneurs in
Birmingham, the UK. Among new immigrant communities in European cities are African …

The literature on educational inequality has established that (i) lower class students are less
likely to attend university than their higher class counterparts, even when adjusting for …

Upward income mobility has decreased across all income distributions in many societies
around the world. Responding to these developments, scholars have called for …