Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers

dc.citation.firstpage431en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Family Issuesen_US
dc.citation.lastpage459en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber34en_US
dc.contributor.authorAugustine, Jennifer Marchen_US
dc.contributor.authorRaley, R. Kellyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-23T17:39:53Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-08-23T17:39:53Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractDoes the concentration of recent Latino immigrants into occupational linguistic niches--occupations with large numbers of other Spanish speakers—restrict their wage growth? On the one hand, it is possible that Latino immigrants who are concentrated in jobs with large numbers of Spanish speakers may have less on-the-job exposure to English, which may isolate them socially and linguistically and limit their subsequent economic mobility. On the other hand, working in linguistic niches can also be beneficial for upwardly mobile immigrants if it allows them to gain a foothold in the United States while they improve their English skills and develop labor market experience. Using data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we test for the effect of working in occupational linguistic niches on wages and wage growth. The results show that while workers in linguistic niche occupations earn lower wages on average, they do not experience lower rates of wage growth over time. Moreover, we find that about 20 percent of workers who start the 4-year SIPP panel in linguistic niches experience occupational mobility that reduces the percentage of workers speaking Spanish in their occupation by over 10 percent over the course of the study, and these モmoversヤ have higher levels of wage growth than other workers in the sample.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationAugustine, Jennifer March and Raley, R. Kelly. "Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers." <i>Journal of Family Issues,</i> 34, no. 4 (2012) Sage: 431-459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513X12439177.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513X12439177en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/71775en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.subject.keywordmultigenerational householdsen_US
dc.subject.keywordnonmarital fertilityen_US
dc.subject.keywordschool readinessen_US
dc.titleMultigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothersen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
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