Segmented socioeconomic adaptation of New Eastern European professionals in the United States

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 5 The likelihood of holding a professional/managerial occupation among post-1991 Eastern European immigrants and various immigrant groups in each educational category (percent), 2006–2009 ACS

	All EE	EE women	EE men	Polish	Russian	Ukrainian	N/W Europe	Asian	Black	Hispanic
Associate’s degree or higher	58.5	58.4	58.7	49.1	64.6	54.5	77.5	73.2	61.9	51.4
N	14,570	8357	6213	2203	4037	2844	25,877	136,383	24,886	58,288
N weighted	322,201	180,813	141,388	53,345	88,573	61,582	488,438	2,926,317	625,062	1,363,904
Associate’s degree	31.1	35.0	25.4	30.2	35.6	24.0	54.8	44.8	42.4	35.4
N	2370	1435	935	508	438	569	4132	15,244	6489	14,900
N weighted	52,813	31,424	21,389	13,446	9508	11,728	76,023	330,672	166,652	360,935
Bachelor’s degree	52.2	53.5	50.4	46.6	54.3	51.7	73.7	67.4	61.3	50.0
N	5917	3489	2428	781	1557	1162	10,540	68,488	11,206	28,641
N weighted	137,339	79,348	57,991	19,906	36,793	26,514	204,696	1,488,397	290,541	685,174
Master’s degree	71.3	70.5	72.4	60.0	74.8	70.8	86.5	87.2	79.8	75.1
N	4284	2464	1820	740	1310	796	6739	33,995	4980	8855
N weighted	92,249	51,215	41,034	16,785	27,972	16,799	126,034	731,148	118,107	193,262
Professional degree	77.3	77.4	77.1	74.2	83.8	70.1	90.5	91.6	85.2	62.7
N	881	531	350	86	245	165	1766	9123	1286	4320
N weighted	18,238	10,677	7561	1566	4999	3526	32,504	183,259	29,153	91,457
Ph.D.	94.9	95.2	94.8	98.5	94.3	89.6	96.4	96.4	92.0	86.5
N	1118	438	680	88	487	152	2700	9533	925	1572
N weighted	21,562	8149	13,413	1642	9301	3015	49,181	192,841	20,609	33,076