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in Feminized Intergenerational Mobility Without Assimilation? Post-1965 U.S. Immigrants and the Gender Revolution
> Demography
Published: 10 September 2015
Fig. 2 Occupational and earnings attainment of first- and second-generation Latinos/as and Asians compared with the white mainstream, 1980 to 2005 (separately for full and part-time workers)
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Stephanie Potochnick; Matthew Hall Abstract This study provides a national-level assessment of occupational mobility and early-career attainment of children of immigrants based on parents' origin-country occupation. Exploiting unique aspects of the Educational Longitudinal Study, we examine how...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 323–333.
Published: 01 August 1998
... pointed to educational disadvantages faced by ethnic minorities as the most plausible explanation for the change. Multivariate analysis revealed a significant increase in the effect of education on high-status occupational attainment but no change in the effect of ethnicity. Net of education, ethnic...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 111–132.
Published: 01 February 1996
... racial groups. Most of the racial differentials in occupational status can be explained by racial differences in the personal assets that determine occupational attainment (especially education), but only a much smaller fraction of the White/non-White income differential can be so explained. Despite...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 539–550.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Suzanne Model Abstract In this paper, queuing theory is tested through an examination of the occupational attainment of six groups of non-whites in London and New York. Workers in the dominant economy are distinguished from those in the niche economy and emphasis is placed on the former. Black male...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 335–344.
Published: 01 August 1998
... that migration alters the career trajectory primarily by accelerating the process of occupational mobility rather than by increasing the level of occupational attainment. Further, the effect of migration on careers varies by type of migration, especially for women. Male-female differences in the outcome...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... socioeconomic outcomes from all fixed family-level conditions and endowments shared by siblings. Results from sibling fixed-effects models reveal a progressively stronger adverse influence of immigration at later stages of childhood on completed education, employment, adult earnings, occupational attainment...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1729–1753.
Published: 12 September 2014
... this racial health disparity through the indirect pathway of occupational attainment and through the direct pathway of early-life exposure to health-adverse environments. Thus, the selection of individuals into different health trajectories, based largely on childhood socioeconomic background, helps explain...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1389–1425.
Published: 19 July 2019
... outcomes in older ages than surrounding birth cohorts. This study combines several sources of contemporary statistics with full-population individual-level data for Sweden during 1968–2012 to examine the influence of fetal exposure to the Spanish flu on health, adulthood income, and occupational attainment...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1601–1626.
Published: 10 September 2015
...Fig. 2 Occupational and earnings attainment of first- and second-generation Latinos/as and Asians compared with the white mainstream, 1980 to 2005 (separately for full and part-time workers) ...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1093–1115.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in terms of occupational and class attainment, as well as for social mobility. The effects seem to be causal but the magnitudes were small. For paternal death, we find no consistent pattern, and in most models there was no effect on sons' socioeconomic outcomes. The patterns were similar for sons...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 369–392.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to children’s status attainment relative to parents and with regard to the rising societal standards proxied by native-born non-Hispanic whites. A profile of intergenerational mobility is prepared using multiple indicators of status attainment: high school and college completion, upper white-collar occupation...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1415–1440.
Published: 01 October 2023
...-generation men of different race and ethnicity make in narrowing the earnings gaps with later generations. We consider the extent to which differences in educational attainment and in early occupational placement affect the earnings trajectories of second-generation men. New second-generation men as a whole...
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in The Long-Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden, 1968–2012
> Demography
Published: 19 July 2019
Fig. 3 Log mean income and mean CAMSIS score in 1970, by birth year and quarter. CAMSIS ranges from 1 to 99, with higher scores indicating higher occupational attainment. The shaded vertical bar represents individuals born during Quarter 1, 1919. Source: Swedish Interdisciplinary Panel.
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1219–1244.
Published: 05 July 2016
... generations. Using a multigenerational version of GENLIAS, a large-scale database containing information from digitized Dutch marriage certificates during 1812–1922, this study describes and explains the influence of grandfathers and great-grandfathers on the occupational status attainment of 119,662 men...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1827–1854.
Published: 16 August 2019
... entry into the family is positively related with sons’ occupational position later in life. In contrast to expectations, the loss of economic resources related to the father’s death is generally not associated with lower status attainment in adulthood for men or for women. The results indicate, however...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 809–819.
Published: 01 June 1967
... of the Japanese Americans, for if redistribution has resulted in integration, will integration promote greater mobility to attain better integration? 24 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1967 1967 Private Household North Central Region Occupational Distribution White Majority...
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Demography 11670148.
Published: 26 November 2024
...Rosa Weber; Mathieu Ferry; Mathieu Ichou Abstract Prior research has found that immigrants are often overeducated: their educational attainment is higher than required or commonly observed in their occupation. Yet, less is known about the education–occupation mismatch among immigrants’ children...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1033–1068.
Published: 27 March 2018
...Fabian T. Pfeffer Abstract Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution provides the first assessment of trends in educational attainment by family wealth...
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