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ArticlePopulation research and policy review2014

U.S. internal migration and occupational attainment: Assessing absolute and relative outcomes by region and race.

Chenoa Flippen

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Article in Population research and policy review, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Chenoa FlippenPopulation Studies Center Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania.

Funding

STATISTICAL DATA ENCLAVE COREP30AG012836 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI KOHLER, HANS-PETER · 1999 to 2024
$14.0M
Population Science Research Center Development CoreR24HD044964 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SMITH, HERBERT L. · 2003 to 2017
$9.8M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG012836NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD044964
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper investigates the occupational implications of contemporary migration flows by region and race. Even though the expectation of a positive link between geographic and social mobility is a central tenet in the stratification literature, empirical assessments are rare and have produced inconsistent results. Our analysis departs from traditional frameworks by integrating both absolute and relative notions of occupational standing for evaluating migration outcomes, comparing migrants against non-migrant peers both at origin and destination. Results document that for whites migration is associated with higher occupational attainment both in absolute and relative terms, irrespective of the regional direction of the move. For blacks, on the other hand, absolute occupational gains are markedly absent for migration to the South, which is instead characterized by significant improvement in relative terms. The differences in absolute and relative gains by race and direction of the move helps contextualize the considerable black over representation in north-south migration and highlights the implications of current internal mobility for racial stratification.

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internal migrationoccupational attainmentracial stratificationsocial mobility

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PMID25914432
PMCPMC4408930

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