Immigrant entrepreneurship and intergenerational mobility among second -generation Korean Americans in New York.
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Title
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Immigrant entrepreneurship and intergenerational mobility among second -generation Korean Americans in New York.
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Identifier
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AAI3008841
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identifier
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3008841
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Creator
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Kim, Dae Young.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Philip Kasinitz
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Date
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2001
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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This dissertation examines the educational and labor market outcomes and intergenerational mobility of second-generation Korean Americans in metropolitan New York. Based on a phone survey of 200 hundred second-generation Korean Americans and 40 in-depth interviews (a subsample of children of entrepreneurs and professionals from the phone survey), the study explores the diverse mobility paths of the second generation and the factors behind their trajectories. Given the concentration of Korean immigrants in small business, the dissertation investigates the role of immigrant small business on the educational and labor market outcomes of their children. At a time when economic restructuring is consolidating an "hour-glass" economy that requires post-secondary education for upward mobility, the key question was whether immigrant small business in conjunction with a vibrant ethnic economy serve as a springboard for mobility into mainstream educational and occupational establishments for the second generation. The primary finding is that parents' class background plays far more important role than entrepreneurship, unlike the prevailing image of Asian American entrepreneurial success story. Nevertheless, the ethnic economy still provides a safety net for the less-successful children of Korean immigrants, and the effect of immigrant strategies of mobility has been the rapid assimilation of the second generation.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
