Top-Level Executives and Professionals: A Statistical Definition of Elite Occupations

This article presents the theoretical framework, the construction method and the initial analyses of a new category associated with the official French socio-economic classification (Professions et catégories socioprofessionnelles [PCS 2020]), named 'top-level executives and professionals'...

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