| Abstrakt: |
Research on immigrant African Americans is slowly increasing, but more studies are needed particularly in regard to specific ethnic groups and their second-generation offspring. We investigate socioeconomic outcomes among second-generation African Americans focusing on those from English-speaking countries in West Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone (GLNS). We use data from the 2010-2017 Current Population Surveys to impute ethnicity on the basis of country of parental birth. Results for generalized ordered logit models for men reveal that GLNS are more likely to have a bachelor's degree than third-plus-generation whites, third-plus-generation blacks, second-generation whites, other-second-generation blacks, but not second-generation Asians. Among women, GLNS are more likely to have a bachelor's degree than all of these groups. OLS estimates of regressions of wages show that net of education, age, marital status, and having children, GLNS men are not disadvantaged relative to third-plus-generation whites in contrast to the disadvantage of 7 percent for other-secondgeneration blacks and 18 percent for third-plus-generation blacks. In regard to women, neither GLNS nor other-second-generation blacks are disadvantaged relative to third-plus-generation whites in contrast to the disadvantage of 8 percent for third-plus-generation blacks. Overall, these findings highlight the significance of ethnic diversity and gender among African Americans. The high socioeconomic attainments of GLNS are noteworthy because not only do they have higher levels of educational attainment but also their wages are commensurately rewarded in the labor market at a rate similar to mainstream whites. The results for secondgeneration GLNS do not show a net racial disadvantage at least in regard to educational attainment and wages. By contrast, other-second-generation black men continue to have a net racial disadvantage in educational attainment and wages relative to third-plus-generation white men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
