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abstract: 'This study evaluates how authorization status shapes job transitions
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among Mexican and Central American immigrants in the United States.
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Specifically, using data from the Survey of Income and Program
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Participation, we impute legal status and track employment histories for
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authorized and unauthorized workers, as well as native-born
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counterparts, in the less skilled labor market. We distinguish job moves
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based on changes in occupations and employers; and by linking workers
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jobs to expected wages in their occupations, we are able to determine
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whether job transitions result in occupational upgrades or downgrades.
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Results reveal that unauthorized immigrants have lower adjusted rates of
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job mobility, consistent with arguments that their lack of work
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authorization traps their employment. Moreover, when unauthorized
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migrants do change jobs, their transitions are characterized by a
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process of occupational churning in which they cycle between similarly
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positioned jobs and have low rates of upward mobility, both within and
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across firms. We also test the possibility that the wage returns to job
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mobility are conditioned by legal status. Finally, we find that the
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penalties to job mobility associated with unauthorized status are more
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severe for women than men, potentially because of their high levels of
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segregation in socially isolating jobs.'
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affiliation: 'Hall, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Washington, 206 Raitt Hall,Box
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353412, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
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Hall, Matthew, Univ Washington, 206 Raitt Hall,Box 353412, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
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Greenman, Emily, Penn State Univ, Populat Res Inst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA.
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Yi, Youngmin, Cornell Univ, Sociol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.'
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author: Hall, Matthew and Greenman, Emily and Yi, Youngmin
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author-email: hallmatt@uw.edu
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author_list:
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- family: Hall
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given: Matthew
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- family: Greenman
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given: Emily
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- family: Yi
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given: Youngmin
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1093/sf/soy086
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eissn: 1534-7605
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files: []
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issn: 0037-7732
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journal: SOCIAL FORCES
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keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS; OCCUPATIONAL-MOBILITY; EMPLOYMENT
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RELATIONS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; UNITED-STATES; LEGAL STATUS; INEQUALITY;
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ASSIMILATION; PRESTIGE'
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language: English
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month: MAR
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number: '3'
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number-of-cited-references: '63'
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orcid-numbers: Yi, Youngmin/0000-0003-0352-3301
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pages: 999-1028
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papis_id: 3ee58fc7e3efa4ecd1900429b16d8c5d
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ref: Hall2019jobmobility
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times-cited: '23'
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title: Job Mobility among Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000462178200003
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usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
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usage-count-since-2013: '21'
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volume: '97'
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web-of-science-categories: Sociology
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year: '2019'
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