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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 19–34.
Published: 01 March 1966
... sociedad norteamericana. Los conceptos de “carrera” y la discución de una persistente “cultura de la pobreza” requieren modification a la luz de estos descubrimientos. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1966 1966 Labor Mobility Occupational Mobility Intergenerational...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1973
... mobility is defined as an occupational change of the husband between the date of marriage and 1963–1964, based on the Hall-Jones occupational scale. Reproductive behavior is operationalized as the number of live births. The conclusion of the multiple classification analysis is that the process of career...
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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 (1974) 11 (2): 247–265.
Published: 01 May 1974
... distribution was increasing. Later cohorts of nonwhites would have a much more favorable occupational distribution if they had enjoyed the mobility patterns of whites in earlier cohorts. In 1972, as in 1962, the inferior occupational chances of nonwhites are due primarily to their disadvantageous patterns...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 11–22.
Published: 01 March 1968
... by the United States Bureau of the Census in March, 1962, gives tables on intergenerational mobility (father's occupation to first job and father's occupation to 1962 occupation) and on intragenerational mobility (first job to 1962 occupation). The mobility tables for Negro and non-Negro men aged 25–64 years...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 1966
... Issues in the Analysis of Social Mobility,” in N. J. Smelser and S. M. Lipset (Eds.), Social Structure and Social Mobility in Economic Development (Chicago: Aldine Press [in press]). 2 U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Lifetime Occupational Mobility of Adult Males, March 1962,” Current Population...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Microdata Sample from the 2000 U.S. decennial census is used to calculate migration rates by occupation and education. The analysis estimates the effects of these occupational mobility measures on the migration of couples and the earnings of married individuals. I find that migration rates in both...
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Demography (1979) 16 (1): 89–101.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Rachel A. Rosenfeld; Aage B. Sørensen Abstract Using the 1970 Census data, this paper examines differences by sex in patterns of intragenerational occupational mobility over a five year period (1965–1970) for two cohorts of white, U.S. men and women. The observed mobility patterns are separated...
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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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in U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
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Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 1 Intergenerational mobility by immigrant parents' U.S. and origin country occupation. High- and low-skilled refer to premigration occupational status. Occupational rank is based on the 4-point scale, where 1 = labor/service, 2 = trade/craft, 3 = lower white-collar, and 4 = professional
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in U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
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Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 1 Intergenerational mobility by immigrant parents' U.S. and origin country occupation. High- and low-skilled refer to premigration occupational status. Occupational rank is based on the 4-point scale, where 1 = labor/service, 2 = trade/craft, 3 = lower white-collar, and 4 = professional
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1921–1942.
Published: 20 April 2013
... Population Association of America 2013 2013 Race Racial boundaries Stratification Occupational mobility Survey measurement More than 40 years ago, historian Carl Degler outlined a provocative comparison of race relations in Brazil and the United States. The crux of his argument about...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 705–726.
Published: 20 March 2020
... steeper downward mobility and less steep upward mobility after immigration than immigrants with lighter skin tone. Fig. 1 Mean International Socio-Economic Index by skin tone at three time points To examine the net effect of skin tone on occupational status at three time points, I use...
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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 (2016) 53 (4): 1219–1244.
Published: 05 July 2016
...-offspring approach is adequate, or whether it is necessary to adopt a multigenerational perspective to understand intergenerational social mobility. Nevertheless, the number of studies is limited and restricted mostly to grandfathers (but see Campbell and Lee 2003 , 2008 , 2011 ). For occupational social...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1601–1626.
Published: 10 September 2015
... overall in the United States experienced marked gains in educational and occupational attainment. If we do not account for this parallel transformation, we are at risk of confounding changes in how race structures socioeconomic mobility with expanded educational and labor market opportunities largely...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
... reveals the enduring effects of family premigration socioeconomic status, as indicated by occupation and education, and culture conducive to upward mobility, proxied by samurai ancestry, on second-generation Japanese Americans’ educational and income levels. These effects may extend back...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 619–639.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... ( 1998 ). Occupational Status and Mobility Among Undocumented Immigrants by Gender . International Migration Review , 32 , 21 – 55 . 10.2307/2547559 Powers M.G. , Seltzer W. , & Shi J. ( 1998 ). Gender Differences in the Occupational Status of Undocumented Immigrants...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 293–309.
Published: 01 March 1967
... incomes, little and much education, and residents of East and West. Factor analysis suggests that migration is part of two orderly processes—occupational career mobility and family life cycle. The bearing of these findings on the relationship between geographic mobility and social integration...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1619–1639.
Published: 05 September 2014
... and mobility is not random by occupation. I find that the tendency for households to relocate for husbands’ careers is better explained by the segregation of women into geographically dispersed occupations rather than by the direct prioritization of men’s careers. Among never-married workers, women relocate...
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