Long-run convergence of ethnic skill differentials, revisited

in my original study, "Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials, " I concluded that the ethnic differentials introduced by the Great Migrati on seemed to persist into the second and third generations. Alba, Lutz, and Vesselinov argue that my study contained a number of conceptual and data p roblems, and conclude that the correlation between the skills of the first and the third generations disappears when these problems are taken into acc ount. MY reanalysis of the Alba et al. data, however documents a stronger l ink between the skills of the first and the third generations than suggeste d by those authors.