SOC 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Mobility

• School: Princeton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 329
• Professor: Tod Hamilton

Document Summary

Strong positive correlation between socioeconomic outcomes of immigrant ethnic groups and subsequent generations. Census data to disprove that the economic performance of second-generation immigrants is higher than other groups. Regression towards the mean and its relation to the melting pot . First great migration and the transfer of skill differentials across generations. Suggests that they have a half-life of one generation. Social mobility of african americans and their comparison against similar first- generation immigrants. Welfare use of different ethnicities across generations. Among individuals where cost is greater, the skills composition of those migrants tends to be different from the migrants who can get here on foot/on train/in a vehicle. Contemporary migrants to the us are not all low skilled, not all high skilled. Groups with the highest mean years of education tend to come from india, Challenge borjas"s argument about a decline in skills among new migrants. To be fair, they are looking at a slightly different period.