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<p>Inequalities of home ownership and home values are overlooked in research on European immigrants in the early twentieth-century USA. The present study addresses this oversight, comparing immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern (SCE) Europe with those from Northern and Western (NW) Europe during 1910–1930, a transformational immigration period. Regression equations estimated with data from the census and other sources control for groups’ 1910 literacy, wages, and finances. Results show that, in 1930, NW European immigrant groups had higher home ownership rates than SCE European immigrant groups, supporting the hypothesis that NW European immigrant groups benefited from reception-context advantages (e.g., white racial membership). But the results also show that, despite 1910 disadvantages reflecting their migration-context origins, SCE European immigrant groups pulled even with their NW European counterparts on home values, a salient asset-accumulation indicator, by 1930, supporting the hypothesis of European immigrant groups’ socioeconomic-status convergence in the post-mass-immigration era.</p>

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European Immigrant Groups’ Home Ownership and Home Values in the Early Twentieth-Century USA: A Comparative Analysis

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    2025年4月26日

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  • Robert L. Boyd

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Inequalities of home ownership and home values are overlooked in research on European immigrants in the early twentieth-century USA. The present study addresses this oversight, comparing immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern (SCE) Europe with those from Northern and Western (NW) Europe during 1910–1930, a transformational immigration period. Regression equations estimated with data from the census and other sources control for groups’ 1910 literacy, wages, and finances. Results show that, in 1930, NW European immigrant groups had higher home ownership rates than SCE European immigrant groups, supporting the hypothesis that NW European immigrant groups benefited from reception-context advantages (e.g., white racial membership). But the results also show that, despite 1910 disadvantages reflecting their migration-context origins, SCE European immigrant groups pulled even with their NW European counterparts on home values, a salient asset-accumulation indicator, by 1930, supporting the hypothesis of European immigrant groups’ socioeconomic-status convergence in the post-mass-immigration era.