TY - JOUR
T1 - Underemployment across immigrant generations
AU - Slack, Tim
AU - Jensen, Leif
N1 - Funding Information:
This is a revision of a paper originally presented at the 2003 meetings of the Population Association of America. This research was conducted with support from the Population Research Institute, Penn State, which has core support from the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (2 R24 HD041025-06), and The Pennsylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station Multi-state Research Project NE-1011. We thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. The authors alone are responsible for any substantive or analytic errors that remain.
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PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - The employment circumstances of immigrants and their children constitute a key dimension along which immigrant adaptation to the U.S. can be evaluated. We describe and analyze employment adequacy-defined as underemployment-among first, second and third (or higher) immigrant generations. Analyzing CPS data for the decade spanning 1995-2004, we find support for the notion of successful economic assimilation. The prevalence of underemployment is decidedly higher among the first-generation compared to the second or third, while the latter two groups differ little in this regard. These gross comparisons, however, mask important variation within immigrant generations, including a particular disadvantage among foreign-born non-citizens.
AB - The employment circumstances of immigrants and their children constitute a key dimension along which immigrant adaptation to the U.S. can be evaluated. We describe and analyze employment adequacy-defined as underemployment-among first, second and third (or higher) immigrant generations. Analyzing CPS data for the decade spanning 1995-2004, we find support for the notion of successful economic assimilation. The prevalence of underemployment is decidedly higher among the first-generation compared to the second or third, while the latter two groups differ little in this regard. These gross comparisons, however, mask important variation within immigrant generations, including a particular disadvantage among foreign-born non-citizens.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.12.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35549007940
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 36
SP - 1415
EP - 1430
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 4
ER -