Research on how the residential segregation of immigrant populations has impacted their labor market outcomes presents many challenges because of the fact that immigrants often choose to locate near co-ethnics to share resources and cultural amenities. Because not all immigrants choose to live...

Traditional assimilation theory predicts immigrant adaptation into society as a function of catching up to status of U.S.-born non-Hispanic white households. Recent Taiwanese immigrants, rather than climbing socioeconomic ladders overtime, may have surpassed the socioeconomic status of whites...