Doctoral Dissertation Research: Multiethnic Populations, Career Trajectories, and Socioeconomic Mobility

在美国，高移民率再次提出了关于种族多样性对社会经济流动模式的影响以及种族和族裔群体之间不平等程度的重要问题。然而，尽管移民和族裔多样性对多族裔社会中的种族和族裔分层有潜在影响，但尚未有研究审查这些因素对生命过程中社会流动模式的影响。虽然先前的研究广泛关注与当代种族和民族劳动力市场差异相关的大都市地区特征，但本研究的贡献在于检查影响美国工人职业轨迹的社区的多民族方面。运用交叉分类多层次增长曲线模型分析美国全国青年纵向调查和美国人口普查局的数据，本研究将全面评估后民权时代导致种族、民族和性别群体之间代际社会经济流动差异模式的社会力量。特别关注移民和种族多样性对职业成就、收入增长和本地出生工人从青年到中年获得的工作经验的影响。这项研究的传播将通过帮助研究人员、政策制定者、教师和学生更好地理解种族多样性对其社区的社会和经济福祉的影响，从而影响更广泛的社会。

In the United States, high rates of immigration have once again raised important questions concerning the effect of ethnic diversity on patterns of socioeconomic mobility and levels of inequality between racial and ethnic groups. However, despite the potential effect of immigration and ethnic diversity on racial and ethnic stratification within multiethnic societies, research has yet to provide an examination of the impact of these factors on patterns of social mobility over the life course. While prior research focuses extensively on metropolitan area characteristics related to contemporaneous race and ethnic labor market disparities, the contribution of this research is to examine the multiethnic aspects of communities that affect the career trajectories of American workers. Applying cross-classified multilevel growth curve models to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and U.S. Census Bureau, this research will provide a comprehensive assessment of the social forces contributing to the differential patterns of intragenerational socioeconomic mobility among race, ethnic, and gender groups in the post-civil rights era. Particular attention is given to the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on occupational attainment, earnings growth, and acquired work experience of native born workers from young to middle adulthood. The dissemination of this research will impact the broader society by helping researchers, policy makers, teachers, and students to better understand the effects of increasing ethnic diversity on the social and economic well-being of their communities.