Placing Progress: Contextual Inequality and Immigrant Incorporation in the US
Placing Progress: Contextual Inequality and Immigrant Incorporation in the US
This study contributes to research on immigrant economic incorporation by considering the relative wages of immigrants and their adult children to the US-born population. By comparing racially-disaggregated wage distributions for New York, Los Angeles, and the US overall, this study provides perspective on the complicated social and economic contexts within which intergenerational immigrant progress occurs. This research is of interest because consideration of the US-born children of immigrants invokes questions of social mobility and the persistence of inequality more broadly. Further, this paper contributes to a theoretical debate over place and immigrant progress by examining the 1.5 generation, for whom residence in concentrated immigrant cities has been theorized as detrimental to economic incorporation. Finally, this paper introduces substantial analysis of local wage structures. Results suggest that intergenerational prospects are geographically specific and contingent on the continuing contexts of racial wage inequality - for even the US-born of US parents.
1.5 generation, immigrant economic incorporation, spatial assimilation, labor market contexts, immigrant cities
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Goodwin-White, Jamie
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31 August 2006
Goodwin-White, Jamie
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Goodwin-White, Jamie
(2006)
Placing Progress: Contextual Inequality and Immigrant Incorporation in the US
(S3RI Applications & Policy Working Papers, A06/05)
Southampton, UK.
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
46pp.
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This study contributes to research on immigrant economic incorporation by considering the relative wages of immigrants and their adult children to the US-born population. By comparing racially-disaggregated wage distributions for New York, Los Angeles, and the US overall, this study provides perspective on the complicated social and economic contexts within which intergenerational immigrant progress occurs. This research is of interest because consideration of the US-born children of immigrants invokes questions of social mobility and the persistence of inequality more broadly. Further, this paper contributes to a theoretical debate over place and immigrant progress by examining the 1.5 generation, for whom residence in concentrated immigrant cities has been theorized as detrimental to economic incorporation. Finally, this paper introduces substantial analysis of local wage structures. Results suggest that intergenerational prospects are geographically specific and contingent on the continuing contexts of racial wage inequality - for even the US-born of US parents.
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Published date: 31 August 2006
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1.5 generation, immigrant economic incorporation, spatial assimilation, labor market contexts, immigrant cities
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Jamie Goodwin-White
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