IMMIGRANTS, MINORITIES AND THEIR OPPORTUNITIES: 1940-19

该项目旨在解释不同的社会经济适应， 移民人口的同化，移民的子女 人口和长期居住的少数民族（黑人和西班牙裔）， 1940年和1950年的美国。 后续研究（提交给 项目完成后的资金）将执行该项目 到1960年、1970年和1980年。 移民的经济适应， 少数民族被假设为是一个产品的特点， 少数群体人口、他们可获得的机会以及社会 歧视 根据最近发布的1940年 1950年美国人口普查，建议研究 将利用结构方程模型来测试关于 大革命后民族分层的决定因素 大萧条与二战 除了标准的人力资本模型 和分解分析，这项研究将借鉴社会学和 关于劳动力市场对少数民族的影响的经济理论 不平等 标准大都市区通用识别码 1940年至1950年人口普查公共使用Microdota文件 可用于确定可比较的地理区域，并将其 具有市县数据簿文件中的地方特征。 的 男女的经济成就将分别进行分析，然后 共同被视为家庭单位的一部分。 的方法学和 这项研究的实质性成果将有助于当代研究 移民和种族社会经济成就的过程。

This project seeks to explain the differential socioeconomic adaptation and assimilation of immigrant populations, the children of immigrant populations, and long resident minorities (blacks and Hispanics) in the United States in 1940 and 1950. Subsequent research (to be submitted for funding after the completion of this project) will carry the project forward to 1960, 1970, and 1980. The economic adaptation of immigrant and ethnic minorities is hypothesized to be a product of the characteristics of the minority populations, the opportunities available to them, and societal discrimination. Based upon recently released microdata files from the 1940 and 1950 Population Censuses of the United States, the proposed research will utilize structural equation models to test hypotheses about the determinants of ethnic stratification in the years following the Great Depression and World War II. In addition to standard human capital models and decomposition analysis, the study will draw upon sociological and economic theory regarding the consequences of labor markets for ethnic inequality. Common identification codes for Standard Metropolitan Areas and State Economic Areas in 1940 to 1950 Census Public Use Microdota Files can be used to identify comparable geographical areas and to match them with place characteristics from the City-County Data Book file. The economic attainment of men and women will be separately analyzed and then jointly considered as part of familial units. The methodological and substantive results of this study will speak to research on contemporary processes of immigrant and ethnic socioeconomic attainment.