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Session 93:
Assimilation and Social Mobility

Friday, May 01
10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 3
Chair: Linda W. Gordon, Independent Consultant
Discussant: Richard D. Alba, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

1. The Intergenerational Economic Incorporation of European Immigrants in Canada, 1970-2000: Is Straight-Line Assimilation Uniform by Ethnicity?  •  Melissa Moyser, University of Toronto; Monica Boyd, University of Toronto

2. When Race Is not The Issue: Education and Labor Market Outcomes of European-Educated Immigrants in the U.S.  •  Cristina Bradatan, Texas Tech University; Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Kansas State University

3. Racial Differences in the Tempo of Assimilation for White and Black African Foreign-Born to the United States  •  Stephanie J. Nawyn, Michigan State University

4. A Temporally-Unbiased Summary Measure of Immigrant Advancement in the U.S.  •  John Pitkin, Analysis and Forecasting, Inc.; Dowell Myers, University of Southern California

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