Work, Status, and Income: Men in the American Occupational Structure since the Late Nineteenth Century

Sobek, Matthew

doi:10.2307/1171236

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“…The study of occupation has a long tradition in Sociology and Economics, and occupation serves as a core concept in research on wage determination, human capital acquisition, careers, social stratification and social mobility, and other fields such as social and friendship networks or cultural consumption (Blau & Duncan, 1967;Chan & Goldthorpe, 2007;De Beyer & Knight, 1989;Kambourov & Manovskii, 2008;Perales, 2013; entities which emerge, evolve, disappear and reappear with changes in the structure of work (Abbott, 1989;Sobek, 1996). As a consequence, classifications often become obsolete and are superseded by new versions or completely new instruments.…”

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How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

Perales

2014

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How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

Perales

2014

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“…Table 1 presents the results for 1900 (the pre-migration period) and Table 2 for 1910 (the post-migration period). In Table 1, the 1950-based income scores from IPUMS and the 1890-based income scores from Sobek (1996) were higher for migrants compared with non-migrants. The differences are significant at the 0.05-level.…”

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“…Because of the significant compression in American wages in the 1940s (Goldin and Margo 1992), 1950-based income scores for 1900 and 1910 likely understate the true differences in occupational incomes. 6 I relied instead on the 1890 income estimates available by occupation from Matthew Sobek's (1996) comprehensive study on incomes by occupation in 1890. 7 Further, I used Samuel Preston and Michael Haines's (1991) (2000), I increased farm incomes by 18.5%, corresponding to the urban/rural cost-of-living difference found in 1892 Michigan by Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson (1991).…”

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Economic gains from migration to the urban western frontier in the United States, 1900–1910: A longitudinal analysis

Tiagi

2016

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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During the early twentieth century, cities along the Pacific coast constituted the new urban frontier. This article examines whether internal migrants gained economically by moving to this new urban frontier, relative to an option of not migrating, or an option of migrating to the established cities in the Midwest and the Northeast. For the analysis, a longitudinal data set was constructed by linking individuals from the 1910 IPUMS sample to the 1900 Census through the genealogy website, Ancestry.com. Results suggest that compared to an option of not migrating, there were significant economic gains to migrating to the urban western frontier. However, migrants to the Midwest and the Northeast gained about the same, economically, as migrants to the urban western frontier. KEYWORDSEarly twentieth century migration; urban frontier migration; urban western frontier; western frontier cities CONTACT Raaj Tiagi

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“…As noted by Sobek (1996), "our understanding of historical social structure and where people fit in is bound up with the interpretation of occupations." 13 Thernstrom (1973) argued that the measurement of occupational mobility "requires a specification of the broad occupational categories that may be considered socially distinct, and a definition of which jobs fit in which category."…”

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Geography and Assimilation: A Case Study of Irish Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century America

Cirenza¹

2016

Migration and Integration

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This paper uses empirical evidence drawn from newly constructed datasets to assess the impact of geographic clustering on the assimilation and occupational mobility of Irish immigrants in the United States in the late nineteenth century. It finds that geographic clustering was quite pronounced for Irish immigrants in this time period. Irish immigrants were primarily drawn to the large metropolitan areas of the Northeast, reflecting the importance of these areas as points of entry to the US, areas of prior settlement by previous generations of Irish immigrants, as well as major centres for employment for new immigrants. This paper also finds that higher levels of geographic clustering were associated with both lower degrees of assimilation and lower occupational outcomes. The benefits of geographic clustering in the job market often described in this literature do not appear to have existed for Irish immigrants in the late nineteenth century. These results would also support the view that living in a more ethnically concentrated community, though perhaps improving the initial starting position of Irish immigrants in America, may have come at the expense of slower subsequent assimilation and reduced occupational mobility.

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Work, Status, and Income: Men in the American Occupational Structure since the Late Nineteenth Century

Cited by 38 publications

References 60 publications

How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

Economic gains from migration to the urban western frontier in the United States, 1900–1910: A longitudinal analysis

Geography and Assimilation: A Case Study of Irish Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century America

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