A design for a 1973 study of the social mobility of men in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States, the study has replicated the 1962 benchmark survey entitled "Occupational Changes in a Generation" by Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan. One project objective was the reestimation of the parameters of Blau and Duncan models…

This paper focuses on changes in the occupational levels of black and white men in the decade between 1962 and 1973. For each race taken separately, and then for both in comparison, shifts are described in the mean levels and a dispersion of occupational socioeconomic status of men in the experienced civilian labor force. An attempt is made, it is…

Using a new time series of cross-sections from October Current Population Surveys, a fresh look is taken at trends in college entry over the 1972-1988 period for White, Black, and Hispanic American men and women, asking to what degree group differences and social and economic background have affected these trends. From 1972 to 1988, Blacks and…