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Education-occupation mismatch and social networks for hispanics in the US : role of citizenship
Mundra, Kusum; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020
In this paper we examine the education and occupation mismatch for Hispanics in the US using a novel objective … larger social network helps Hispanics in finding jobs that better match with their skill and education levels or whether … living in areas with larger concentration of Hispanics leads to more competition for the same jobs in the labor market. Given …
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Revisiting economic assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans immigrants in the United States
Peri, Giovanni; Rutledge, Zachariah - 2020
Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177719
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Ethnic attrition and the observed health of later-generation Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2016
Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517177
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Nonparametric bounds on the returns to language skills
Gonzalez, Libertad (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001988855
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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America’s small towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, Thomas - 2010
1970s and 1980s. -- Regional economic growth ; Hispanics ; migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933583
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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings
Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575143
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The civil rights act and the earnings of lower income Hispanic men in the 1960's
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
Act, this is the first study to do so for Hispanics. We follow a longitudinal sample of individuals who were in the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548645
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In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621609
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The complexity of immigrant generations : implications for assessing the socioeconomic integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant … issue even with the improved questionnaire. -- immigration ; intergenerational progress ; ethnic identity ; Hispanics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529510
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043