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Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements

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This article assesses second-generation socioeconomic mobility using the most recent data available for eighteen ethnic groups from the Current Population Survey. In contrast to prior predictions of second-generation declines in mobility, this analysis finds significant progress in the second generation, both when that generation is compared to first-generation proxy parents and when compared to native peers of the same age cohort descended from what I identify as “proximal host groups.†The analysis also underscores the significant data limitations that continue to plague assessments of intergenerational mobility in immigrant-origin populations, pointing to the urgent need to collect new and better data against which researchers can benchmark socioeconomic attainment for the post-1965 third generation, which will enter young adulthood in the next decade.

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  • Van C. Tran, 2018. "Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 677(1), pages 105-118, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:677:y:2018:i:1:p:105-118
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716218762725
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    1. Brian Duncan & Stephen J. Trejo, 2017. "The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 70(5), pages 1146-1175, October.
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