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Title: Immigrant Job Quality and Mobility in the United States

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: The U.S. workforce heavily depends on immigrants. To address the role & position of non-White immigrant groups in the United States, the authors examine employment & industry patterns in the labor force, disaggregated by nativity & gender, in 1990 & 2000. The authors then look at job quality & mobility, with job quality defined by occupation, industry, & relative earnings, using 1990 & 2000 census data. Disaggregating results by race & ethnicity, nativity, & gender reveals that immigrants do not appear entirely to be stuck in low-end jobs, & arrival cohort data suggest substantial immigrant upward mobility, mainly from lower to middle but also to higher range jobs. Immigrants may experience more upward mobility than analysts sometimes conclude based on consideration of immigrants' race & ethnicity alone & on assumptions that the experiences of new immigrants are likely to mirror those of the African American population. 2 Tables, 5 Figures, 35 References.

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Authors: Bean, Frank D.; Leach, Mark; Lowell, B.Lindsay

Periodical (Full): Work and Occupations

Issue: 4

Volume: 31

Pages: 499-518

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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