Author(s): Mussie Tessema, Parag Dhumal, Michele Gee, Samuel Tsegai
The link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and school-age children’s educational success has been well documented. This study, however, explains the link between parental SES and children’s future employment prospects in greater detail. It reviews the extant literature and develops a conceptual framework. As children’s future employment prospects represent a multi-faceted and complicated issue, parental SES outcome (education) can be used as a mediating factor between parental SES and children’s future employment prospects. This study argues that the variations in children’s educational success can constrain or enable children’s future employment prospects. The current study underscores that parental SES appears to influence children’s educational success, which subsequently impacts their future employment prospects. The implications of the study and directions for future research are discussed.