Kevin Thomas - Pennsylvania State University
Black immigrants, education-occupation mismatches, and the poverty status of their children
Date: 04/03/2014 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall - 270
Organizer: Elizabeth Frankenberg
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Seth Sanders
9:30am - Elizabeth Frankenberg
10:00am - Nick Ingwersen, Veronica Montalva
10:30am - Joseph Lariscy
11:00am - Amar Hamoudi
11:30am - Andrea Velasquez
12:00pm - Sandy Darity
1:15pm - Open for Students (Amy Finnegan, Maria M. Laurito)
1:45pm - Giovanna Merli
2:15pm - Jessica Ho
2:45pm - Duncan Thomas
3:15pm - Prepare for seminar
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:00pm - Dinner: Frankenberg, Ho, Lariscy, Pearson
Additional Comments:
ABSTRACT: Compared to the US-born, Black immigrants have higher child poverty rates despite their comparatively higher levels of schooling. This disadvantage is inconsistent with human-capital theory and is unseen among other immigrant racial groups. In this study, the analysis examines whether this inconsistency is explained by the influence of parental education-occupation mismatch status on child poverty. It shows that the parents of Black children in immigrant families are considerably more likely to be over-educated, or have more schooling for their jobs, than their counterparts in US-born families. Differences in parental mismatches generally explain the poverty disadvantage of second generation Black children and that of Hispanic-Black children of immigrants. Across race, the results also show that Black children of immigrants are more likely than their White, Asian, and “other” counterparts to have over-educated parents. In addition, the adverse influence of parental education-occupation mismatches are more concentrated among Black than non-Black children. Significantly, having immigrant parents with foreign schooling is found to increase the risks of poverty among all children of immigrants. However, parental foreign schooling does not explain the Black immigrant poverty disadvantage. Instead, among Black children of immigrants, the adverse consequences of parental foreign schooling are largely offset by the persistent disadvantage associated with racial minority status.