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Title: The Relative Labour Market Performance of Second-Generation Americans in the Early 20th Century

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2000

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Abstract: This paper assesses the relative labour market performance of second-generation Americans in the early 20th Century. I demonstrate that the earnings patterns of second-generation Americans in the 1910 and 1920 IPUMS Census samples were much like those of native-born native parentage Americans. Earnings equality was achieved despite lower educational attainment among the second-generation; school attendance patterns among teenage boys in the 1920 Census sample reveal that the sons of immigrants were less likely to be in school than native-parentage boys of the same age. Finally, I focus on the occupations held in father-son pairs identified in the 1920 Census sample. Analysis of intergenerational occupational patterns reveals that the sons of immigrants were more likely to demonstrate up ward occupational mobility, relative to their parents, than were the sons of native-born native parentage Americans.

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Authors: Minns, Chris

Conference Name: Canadian Economic History Conference

Publisher Location: Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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