Publications

Kesler, Christel. Forthcoming. “Immigrant Wage Disadvantage in Sweden and the United Kingdom: Wage Structure and Barriers to Opportunity.” International Migration Review.

Kesler, Christel and Michael Hout. Forthcoming. “Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Wages in U.S. Labor Markets: A Multi-level Approach.” Social Science Research.

Kesler, Christel. 2008. Review of Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, edited by Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding. American Journal of Sociology 113(5): 1452-1454.

Kesler, Christel. 2006. “Social Policy and Immigrant Joblessness in Britain, Germany, and Sweden.” Social Forces 85(2): 743-770.

Karabel, Jerome, Isaac Martin, Emily Beller, and Christel Kesler. 2005. The Elimination of Affirmative Action at the University of California: A Policy Study. Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley. Report to the Ford Foundation.

Kesler, Christel. 2003. “Educational Stratification and Social Change: Evidence from German Unification.” European Sociological Review 19(5): 467-482.

Recent Presentations

“Immigration and Occupational Segregation in the European Union Countries.” Insights on Immigration and Development Economics (INSIDE) Seminar, Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, May 2009.

“Immigration, Occupational Segregation, and Wages in British Regional Labour Markets.” Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, February 2009.

(with Luisa Farah Schwartzman) “Immigration and Ethnic Boundary-Crossing in Britain: A Multi-Generational Approach.” Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association, Stanford, CA, August 2008. 

(with Irene Bloemraad) “Do Immigrants Hurt Civic and Political Engagement? The Conditional Effects of Immigrant Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 23 Countries, 1981-2001.” American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.

“Immigration, Inequality, and Social Cohesion: Some Lessons from Intra-European Comparative Research.” CO-REACH (Co-Ordination of Research Between Europe and China) Social Science Conference, Beijing, May 2008.

“Immigration and the Dynamics of Occupational Segregation in the European Union.” EQUALSOC (Economic Change, Quality of Life, and Social Cohesion) European Union Network of Excellence, Midterm Conference, Berlin, April 2008.

“Immigrant Wage Gaps in Cross-National Perspective: Immigrant-Specific Disadvantages or Wage Structure?” Population Association of America, New York, March 2007.

“A Glass Ceiling for Immigrants? A Comparative Analysis of Occupational Attainment in Western Europe.” American Sociological Association, Montréal, August 2006.

(with Michael Hout) “Assessing Ethnic Economies: Effects of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States and the United Kingdom.” Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association, Nijmegen, NL, May 2006.

“Intersecting Inequalities and Immigrant Joblessness in Britain, Germany, and Sweden.” Population Association of America, Los Angeles, March 2006.