Bridges and barriers : earnings and occupational attainment among immigrants / Jennifer Karas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karas, Jennifer.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--United States.

Foreign workers.

United States.

Immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.

Immigrants.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 157 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, [2002]

Summary:

Karas compares the earnings and occupational attainment of Chinese, Cuban, Filipino, Korean, and Mexican immigrants to those of foreign-born non-Hispanic whites. Using census data, she tests three models of attainment: a human and social capital model, a local labor market model, and a model combining human capital and local labor market indicators against a baseline ethnic heritage model. She finds a double hierarchy of inequality. Asian and Hispanic immigrants are lower on socio-economic scales than foreign-born non-Hispanic whites, but Asians have higher earnings than Latinos. Ethnic differences on human and social capital factors and local labor market indicators explain the variation in socioeconomic attainments and contribute to differences in immigrant attainments. However, foreign-born non-Hispanic whites retain an advantage over the other groups even after differences in human and social capital and local labor market conditions are eliminated.

Contents:

Introduction and overview

Practical, ideological, and theoretical considerations

Background and description of study

Analysis

Origins and destinies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

1931202168

9781931202169

OCLC:

48084366