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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 541–569.
Published: 17 March 2017
..., not opportunity. Difficulties maintaining middle-class incomes create downward mobility among people raised outside stable two-parent homes. Regardless of parental income, these people are relatively likely to become low-income adults, reflecting a new form of perverse equality . People raised outside stable two...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 999–1021.
Published: 03 April 2019
... and immobility. On the other hand, low-income groups are also highly immobile in terms of overall, rather than within-group, mobility. These same groups also have a higher probability of experiencing downward mobility compared with whites and Asians. We also find that within-group income inequality increased...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 321–343.
Published: 08 November 2018
... are 20 percentile ranks lower in the current wealth distribution than those in the lightest category, conditional on parental wealth. In addition, results of a quantile regression indicate that the darkest group shows higher downward mobility. 11 10 2018 8 11 2018 © Population...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 705–726.
Published: 20 March 2020
... steeper downward mobility at arrival in the United States and slower subsequent upward mobility relative to light-skinned immigrants, net of human and social capital, race/ethnicity, country of origin, visa type, and demographics. These findings shed light on multiple current literatures, including...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
... parent-child U.S. intergenerational occupational mobility patterns and child occupational attainment differ based on parental premigration occupational status (i.e., low- vs. high-skilled) and parental postmigration occupational mobility (i.e., upward, same, or downward). Our results suggest...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 277–293.
Published: 01 May 1997
.... Time constraints do not seem to be an important mechanism behind the negative effect of separation. Economic deprivation affects children s attainment negatively, but downward social mobility appears to be an even more important causal mechanism: Losing the parent with the higher social position...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1921–1942.
Published: 20 April 2013
... test for the 1870–1920 period. We find substantial fluidity in black-mulatto classification between censuses—including notable “downward” racial mobility. Using person fixed-effects models, we also find evidence that among Southern men, the likelihood of being classified as mulatto was related...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1093–1115.
Published: 01 June 2022
... (%) No 58.1 59.6 Yes 41.9 40.4 Downward Mobility (%) No 73.6 71.9 Yes 26.4 28.1 HISCAM in 1950 (mean, SD) 59.0 (10.4) 58.2 (9.7) HISCLASS in 1950 (%) Higher managers 1.4 1.1 Higher professionals 3.7 2.7 Lower managers 6.4 6.2 Lower professionals...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 299–314.
Published: 01 August 1999
... a college education were less likely to experience upward mobility in the 1980s than in the 1970s. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Family Income Family Composition Marital Dissolution Labor Market Experience Downward Mobility References Atkinson...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1973
... with a reduction in fertility (Westoff, 1953, p. 30). Although this argument most clearly applies to cases of upward mobility, it can be logically extended to instances of downward mo- bility. Presumably couples experiencing downward mobility are motivated either to regain their lost social position or to halt...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 673–689.
Published: 01 November 2006
... 0.322** (0.07) White downward mobility 0.009 (0.07) College propinquity 0.060 (0.08) Black educational boundaries High school vs. less than high school 0.100 (0.05) 0.017 (0.07) Some college vs. high school 0.430* (0.03) 0.321** (0.07) College vs. some college 0.126* (0.04) 0.016 (0.06) White...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 11–22.
Published: 01 March 1968
..., moreover, the first job did not provide as auspicious a career be- ginning as for whites. Downward mobility from first job to 1962 among men who began at the white-collar or higher manual levels was much more frequent for Ne- groes than for non-Negroes. Presenting mobility over the whole life cycle...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1043–1067.
Published: 01 August 2024
... upward mobility (i.e., a respondent is never bereaved despite having a bereaved mother) and downward mobility (i.e., a respondent is bereaved despite having a never-bereaved mother). Overall, the results show that the percentage of women experiencing mortality mobility has decreased across cohorts...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 153–181.
Published: 11 March 2011
... recent studies showed that favorable conditions in adulthood may compensate for childhood disadvantages, and downward social mobility may exacerbate adult health outcomes (Hart et al. 1998 ; Luo and Waite 2005 ; Turrell et al. 2002 ). However, these patterns are based on limited research...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 November 1993
... their compliance as they become less involved with their children. In this paper we have presented evidence that compliance status changes considerably over time. Some of the downward mobility may be due to fathers who become less involved with their children over time, but the data also imply that other downward...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 651–671.
Published: 01 August 2008
... or even downward mobility across generations. One area of concern with respect to Hispanic assimilation is the area of fertility. Be- tween 1990 and 2004, the percentage of all births attributable to U.S. Hispanic women increased from 15% to 23%. The increase was even more pronounced for the Mexican...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1601–1626.
Published: 10 September 2015
... their white counterparts. Again, this cannot be interpreted as downward mobility because second-generation advancement is relative to the high starting point of their immigrant parents. In other words, the negative Year × Generation coefficients indicate that the mainstream experienced greater mobility...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 83–106.
Published: 10 January 2018
... ; Dieleman et al. 1995 ; Feijten 2005 ). By contrast, moves related to separation are argued to be associated with downward moves on the housing ladder (Feijten 2005 ; Gober 1992 ). However, most empirical studies in the demographic and sociological literature have used the concept of the housing...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 631–653.
Published: 24 February 2017
... of the downward trend in interstate migration. In this study, we also find only a limited role for aging as well as a wide variety of other demographic shifts in the composition of the population. Consequently, we look beyond demographics and explore whether changes in the labor market can help explain...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in the destination country and ignoring the family socioeconomic status in origin countries’ context is problematic because immigrant parents experience significant downward mobility upon arrival ( Feliciano and Lanuza 2017 ; Luthra et al. 2018 ; Pong and Landale 2012 ; Potochnick and Hall 2021 ). Most first...
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