Michael Hout
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Survey Research Center
        University of California, Berkeley
                  
      
    at time of fellowship
              1996 to 1997
      
    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.