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Title: Individual, Occupational, and State-level Determinants of the Job Quality of Hispanic Immigrants.

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Hispanic workers are a significant and growing portion of the US labor force. It is therefore essential to understand the pattern of Hispanic immigrants’ incorporation into the US labor force and the factors underlying or impeding successful incorporation trajectories. This dissertation investigates how the job quality of Hispanic immigrants compares to that of US‐born workers in 2003 and in 2010, and evaluates competing explanations of the differences in job quality between these two groups of workers. I also investigate whether differences in job quality are attributable to Hispanic ethnicity or immigrant status by comparing the job quality of Hispanic immigrants with US‐ born Hispanic workers. In pursuing these research goals, I develop multidimensional measures of . . .

Url: https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/handle/1840.20/33358

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Authors: Leach, Brandi Lynn

Institution: NC State University

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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