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Working Paper No. 497
May 02, 2007
Surveying American Jews and Their Views on Middle East Politics
AbstractThis working paper takes up three related themes. In section 1, I briefly describe the issues relevant to surveying American Jews and highlight the importance of authoritative national surveys; in section 2, I note that these surveys have not included much exploration of American Jewish divisions over Israeli and American Middle East policy. In section […]
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Working Paper No. 473
August 20, 2006
The American Jewish Periphery
AbstractThis paper calls attention to the American Jewish periphery—Americans of recent Jewish origin who have only the most tenuous connections, if any, with those origins. This periphery has been growing to the point that there are now, for example, nearly a million Americans with recent Jewish origins (origins no farther back in time than the […]
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Working Paper No. 465
August 04, 2006
The Local Geographic Origins of Russian-Jewish Immigrants, circa 1900
AbstractThis working paper concerns the local origins of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States, circa 1900. New evidence is drawn from a large random sample of Russian-Jewish immigrant arrivals in the United States. It provides information on origins not merely by large regions, or even by the provinces of the Pale of Settlement (where nearly […]
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Working Paper No. 458
July 20, 2006
Dissent and Discipline in Ben Gurion’s Labor Party, 1930–32
AbstractThis paper describes a small opposition group that functioned during 1930–33 on the left fringes of Ben Gurion’s Mapai party in Palestine. Mapai dominated Jewish Palestine’s politics, and later the politics of the young State of Israel; it lives on today in Israel’s Labor Party. The opposition group, probably no more than a dozen active […]
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Book Series
December 01, 2005
Italians Then, Mexicans Now
AbstractAccording to the American dream, hard work and a good education can lift people from poverty to success in the “land of opportunity.” The unskilled immigrants who came to the United States from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries largely realized that vision. Within a few generations, their […]
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Working Paper No. 417
January 22, 2005
Determinants of Minority–White Differentials in Child Poverty
AbstractThis paper uses data from the 1993–2001 March Current Population Survey to estimate the extent to which child living arrangements, parental work patterns, and immigration attributes shape racial and ethnic variation in child poverty. Results from multivariate analyses and a standardization technique reveal that parental work patterns as well as child living arrangements are especially […]
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Working Paper No. 376
April 01, 2003
Mexicans Now, Italians Then
AbstractThis working paper continues earlier efforts to compare the experiences of today’s second-generation Mexican Americans with those of second-generation members of major immigrant groups of a century ago. Here the focus is on intermarriage. Contemporary data comes from 1998-2001 CPS data sets and historical data from the IPUMS data sets for 1920 and 1960. As […]
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Book Series
November 21, 2002
The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals
AbstractThe change in the way the federal government asked for information about race in the 2000 Census marked an important turning point in the way Americans measure race. By allowing respondents to choose more than one racial category for the first time, the Census Bureau challenged strongly held beliefs about the nature and definition of […]
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Working Paper No. 350
July 01, 2002
Polish and Italian Schooling Then, Mexican Schooling Now?
AbstractThis paper relies on data from the census and the Current Population Survey (CPS) to compare levels of education attained by second-generation young people from important immigrant groups during the last great wave of immigration and by second-generation Mexican Americans today. In addition, it provides evidence, based on the CPS, about the earnings relative to […]
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Working Paper No. 343
February 01, 2002
Poles and Italians Then, Mexicans Now?
AbstractA good deal of recent discussion among social scientists concerned with immigration is about the disadvantages faced by immigrants who enter the American labor force with much-lower levels of skills than those possessed by the typical native white worker. Among contemporary immigrant groups, by far the most important example is the Mexicans. The challenges faced […]
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Working Paper No. 335
August 01, 2001
Young Mexican Americans, Blacks, and Whites in Recent Years
AbstractThis paper stresses that the key to concerns about the progress of second-generation Americans is the fate of the Mexican second generation. It compares several indicators of the advances of second-generation Mexicans to those of non-Hispanic, native-born blacks and non-Hispanic, native-born white attainments. The analysis relies on the most recent available evidence from the CPS […]
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Working Paper No. 333
June 01, 2001
Toward a Population History of the Second Generation
AbstractPast-present comparisons of second-generation progress are often plagued by vague references to the baseline, the past. This essay seeks to contribute some specificity to the understanding of second generations past for the sake of comparison and as a contribution to historical understanding in its own right. First, it defines the older second-generation groups that make […]
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Working Paper No. 329
May 01, 2001
Reporting of Two or More Races in the 1999 American Community Survey
AbstractThis study presents data on race, collected at selected sites throughout the country for the 1999 American Community Survey (ACS). In particular, the distribution of the population by race and Hispanic or Latino origin is examined, as are the reporting of multiple races, number of races, and major race combinations and the extent to which […]
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Working Paper No. 320
January 01, 2001
“Race or People”
AbstractIn 1898, the United States Bureau of Immigration initiated a classification of immigrants into some 40 categories of "race or people." Nearly all the categories covered Europeans. In 1909 an effort was made to extend this system of classification to the US Census, and the relevant measure passed in the Senate. From the outset, organizations […]
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Working Paper No. 312
August 01, 2000
Demographic Outcomes of Ethnic Intermarriage in American History
AbstractThis paper presents a new approach to measuring the extent of intermarriage among Americans of different ethnic origins. Using Census Bureau microdata and CPS data, measurements of the rates of Italian-American intermarriages across four generations are made to demonstrate that these rates were not merely high following the immigrant generation, but that even low estimates […]
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Working Paper No. 240
July 01, 1998
The Place of Cultural Explanations and Historical Specificity in Discussions of Modes of Incorporation and Segmented Assimilation
AbstractIn this new working paper, Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann discusses cultural, structural, and contextual explanations of segmented assimilation among the children of immigrants. In it he addresses a number of questions about modes of incorporation as an explanation for ethnic differences in behavior—what, for example, is the status of cultural explanations for ethnic behavior if […]
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Working Paper No. 215
November 01, 1997
Achievement and Ambition among Children of Immigrants in Southern California
AbstractThe influx of immigrants to the United States after 1965 has reached levels not seen since the early part of the century. The ability of these recent immigrant groups and their children to succeed in the American economy has been hotly debated but, until recently, little studied. Rubin G. Rumbaut, a professor of sociology at […]
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Working Paper No. 214
November 01, 1997
The School-to-Work Transition of Second-generation Immigrants in Metropolitan New York
AbstractSocial scientists have only begun to study the experiences of the 15 million immigrants who have settled in the United States since 1965 and have learned even less about their children. Several speculate that the children of immigrants, being restricted to poor inner city schools, bad jobs, and shrinking economic niches, will experience downward mobility, […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 35
October 08, 1997
Reflecting the Changing Face of America
AbstractOn the United States’ census form, American citizens are told they may list any ethnic ancestries with which they identify, but are instructed to “mark one only” in the question on race. Joel Perlmann asserts that it is in the public interest to allow people to declare themselves as having origins in more than one […]
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Working Paper No. 200
August 01, 1997
Second Generations
AbstractThis paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine” and “segmented assimiiation” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. Research Associate Roger Waldinger, of the University of California at Los Angeles, and Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann begin with a review of the basic approach, […]
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Working Paper No. 195
June 01, 1997
“Multiracials,†Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage—The Public’s Interest
AbstractHow the census of 2000 is to count “multiracial” people is a hot topic in Washington. A federal task force presented a draft of its recommendations in July, and the Office of Management and Budget, after hearing reactions, will make a final ruling in late October. As immigration and intermarriage increase, this issue is becoming […]
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Working Paper No. 182
December 01, 1996
Literacy among the Jews of Russia in 1897
AbstractResearchers exploring Jewish literacy have traditionally ignored the Russian Census of 1897 on the grounds that it underreported Jewish literacy. Most have felt that the low literacy percentage reported for Jews could not possibly be accurate and therefore scholars have ignored the value of the Census as a research tool. In a study that compares […]
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Working Paper No. 181
December 01, 1996
Which Immigrant Occupational Skills?
AbstractResearchers have long sought explanations for the success of Jews who migrated to the United States at the turn of the century in attaining middle-class status. East European Jews arrived in the United States at the same time as many other ethnic groups between 1880 and 1920, yet achieved economic success far faster. In the […]
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Working Paper No. 180
December 01, 1996
The Utilization of Human Capital in the US, 1975–1992
AbstractThe experience that comes with age and the productive capacity of youth are both assets widely underused in the American labor market, according to Research Associate Robert Haveman and co-authors Lawrence Buron and Andrew Bershadker of the University of Wisconsin. To measure the use of American labor, the authors developed an indicator called the capacity […]
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