Fitting In: Socio-Economic Attainment Patterns of Foreign-Born Egyptians in the United States |
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| Authors: | Samia El-Badry Dudley L. Poston Jr. |
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| Affiliation: | Samia El-Badry is a post-doctoral fellow at Florida State University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in sociology and demography from The University of Texas at Austin. She has taught courses in population and development and introductory sociology. Her research focuses on migration, gender and socioeconomic development. She is currently addressing various aspects of foreignborn contributions to the social security system in the United States.;Dudley L. Poston, Jr. is professor and chair of the Department of Rural Sociology and research associate of the Population and Development Program, Cornell University. He teaches courses in Asian Demography and Human Ecological Theory. Most of his current research is in three areas: the socioeconomic attainment patterns of Latino and other foreign-born immigrants to the United States;the relationships between socioeconomic development, gender equality, contraception, and fertility in China, Korea and other Asian countries;and the intellectual and personality characteristics of single and siblinged children in China. |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzes socio-economic attainment patterns of foreign-born Egyptians in the United States, as tabulated in the 1980 U. S. Census. This is achieved first through an examination of their earnings, followed by an analysis of the rate at which their human capital characteristics are converted into wages.
The findings suggest that this more recent immigrant group has likely attained higher earnings largely because of their skills and educational levels. Thus, while assimilation theory posits the crucial importance of time as a linkage to higher socio-economic attainment, this may not necessarily be the case for these immigrant men and women. |
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