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Assimilation of Immigrants and Their Adult Children : College Education, Cohabitation, and Work.

Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Ping
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.
Colección:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; 2 Assimilation of College Education: Intergenerational and Inter-Class Mobility of the Second Immigrant Generation; 3 Cohabitation and Marriage among Immigrant Youth DuringTransition to Adulthood; 4 Divergent Paths of Economic Adaptation: Nativity and Immigrant Statuses, Labor Segment Membership and Economic Well-Being; 5 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index.