Michael Hout

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Survey Research Center

University of California, Berkeley

at time of fellowship

1996 to 1997

Visiting Scholar

Academic Discipline:

Sociology

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Michael Hout, professor of sociology and director of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, conducted research on the dynamics of low-wage labor markets, writing two RSF working papers and completing a paper, "Speedbumps on the Road to Meritocracy," which argues that upward social mobility has been decreasing and downward social mobility increasing since the 1970s.