Staying in STEM or changing course: Do natives and immigrants pursue the path of least resistance? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Building 120, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-2047, United States;2. School of Management, Fudan University, Rm. 405, Siyuan Building, 670 Guoshun Rd., Shanghai 200433, China;1. New York University, United States;2. Princeton University, United States;3. Stanford University, United States;4. Rutgers University, United States;1. CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710075, China;3. State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution and Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;1. GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany;2. Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany;3. University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines why Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields are becoming “immigrant” fields of study as native students shift from STEM fields to law, medicine and business. Using data from the 2010 National Survey of College Graduates, the analyses find that foreign college-educated immigrants with STEM degrees tend to remain in STEM fields, while natives are more likely to shift from STEM fields to law, medicine and business in graduate school. Among those who moved into law, medicine and business, the gains in earnings are larger for natives than for foreign educated immigrants. These results have important implications for the social mobility of highly educated natives and immigrants. |
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| Keywords: | Field of study Horizontal stratification Immigrants Earnings STEM |
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