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Title: How do Latino Groups Fare in a Changing Economy? Occupation in Latino Groups in the Greater New York City Area, 1980-2009
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: Over the past forty years, the types of jobs offered by New Yorks economy have shifted from a more manufacturing-based economy to one with more professional, management, and service jobs. This report looks at how Latino immigrants and later generations have integrated into this changing economy, and how their job categories have shifted as well. Occupation strongly indicates lifestyle and its accompanying socioeconomic measures (Alba and Nee 2003). Changes in the distribution of occupation in groups as they enter New York and as their children gain jobs in the economy lend insight into how economic assimilation is occurring. More specifically, how gender, citizenship, age, and country of birth impact the job categories occupied by Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, and Ecuadorians shows whether they are becoming more, or less, like the average New Yorkers over time. Building on an earlier Latino Data Project report (Limonic 2008) on the changes in occupations of New Yorks Latino population, this report focuses on variation amongst and within the four most populous Latino sub-national groups...
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Authors: Ruszczyk, Stephen
Publisher: Latino Data Report 48, CLACLS
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare
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