Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality / David Card and Steven Raphael, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Card, David.

Raphael, Steven, 1968-

Series:

National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy

The national poverty center series on poverty and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Employment.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 469 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013]

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors introduction / by David Card and Steven Raphael -- Composition, competition, and the geography of immigrant poverty -- The impact of immigration on native poverty through labor market competition / by Giovanni Peri -- Immigrant-native substitutability : the role of language ability / by Ethan Lewis -- Immigration, segregation, and poverty in the U.S. / by Michael Stoll -- "New destinations" and immigrant poverty / by Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Matthew Townley -- Intergenerational mobility within immigrant communities -- Intergenerational mobility among immigrants and their descendants / by Renee Reichl Luthra and Roger Waldinger -- Opportunity horizons and cultures of mobility : frames of achievement among second generation Mexicans, Chinese, and Vietnamese / by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou -- Assessing human capital and intergenerational mobility among 1.5 generation undocumented young adults / by Roberto G. Gonzales -- Public policy and poverty among the foreign born -- The new Latino underclass : immigration enforcement as a race-making institution / by Douglas S. Massey -- Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of undocumented workers / by Sarah Bohn and Magnus Lofstrom -- Immigration, welfare reform, and the U.S. safety net / by Marianne Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes -- Immigration and redistributive social policy / by Cybelle Fox, Irene Bloemraad, and Christel Kesler -- Immigrants in Europe -- Immigration : the European experience / by Christian Dustmann and Tomasso Frattini -- Index.

ISBN:

9780871544988

0871544989

OCLC:

836557503