This study uses data for the U.S. from the May 1991 CPS and for Germany from the 1990 wave of the Socioeconomic Panel … little human capital; 4) Minority workers in the U.S. and the foreign-born in Germany are especially likely to work at these …

Germany, 1984-93. Four hypotheses, derived from recent North American research and from sociological theory (stratification … theory) are tested. They are: 1. that in West Germany, as in the U.S., the poor are a more stable (less mobile) group than …