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Title: Race, Immigration, and the U.S. Labor Market: Contrasting the Outcomes of Foreign Born and Native Blacks
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2008
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Abstract: It is generally expected that immigrants do not fareas well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market.The literature also documents that Blacks experiencelower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paperinnovates by studying the interaction between race andimmigration. The study compares the labor marketoutcomes of four racial groups in the United States(Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics) interacted withtheir foreign born status, using the Integrated Public UseMicro Data Series data for the 2000 Census. Amongwomen and for labor market outcomes such as laborforce participation, employment, and personal income, the foreign born are doing worse than the native bornfrom the same racial background, with the exceptionof Blacks. Among men, for labor force participationand employment, foreign-born Blacks are doing betterthan native Blacks. The paper tests different possibleexplanations for this reversal of the advantage of nativesover immigrants among Blacks. It considers citizenship,ability in English, age at and time since arrival in theUnited States, as well as neighborhood effects, butconcludes that none of these channels explains ormodifies the observed reversal.
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Authors: de Walque, Damien
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Publication Number: 4737
Institution: World Bank
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Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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