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Title: Restructuring of the US Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Migrant Destinations
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2005
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Abstract: Findings from the 2000 US Census indicate high rates of Hispanic population increase beyond urban areas and traditional immigrant receiving states. The diversity of new destinations raises questions about forces attracting migrants to rural areas and links between economic structural change and Hispanic population growth. Our conceptualframework applies dual-labor market theory to the meat processing industry, a sector whose growing Hispanic labor force offers an illustrative case study for analyzing how labor demand influences demographic change. We document the industrys consolidation, concentration, increased demand for low skilled labor, and changing labor force composition over three decades. We then positionmeat processing within a broader analysis that models nonmetro county Hispanic population growth between 1980 and 2000 as a function of changes in industrial sector employment share and nonmetrocounty economic and demographic indicators. We find that growth in meat processing employment exhibits the largest positive coefficient increase in nonmetro Hispanic population growth over two decades and the largest impact of all sectors by 2000.
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Authors: Kandel, William; Parrado, Emilio A.
Periodical (Full): Population and Development Review
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Pages: 1-26
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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