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Title: Immigrant Underemployment Across US Metropolitan Areas: From a Spatial Perspective

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: A significant number of immigrants fail to realise their full potential in the US labour markets, as evidenced by those working in occupations requiring skill levels far below their own level of education. While previous studies have studied immigrant underemployment with a focus on individual labour force characteristics, the spatial dimensions of immigrant underemployment have been largely overlooked. Using microdata from the 20062010 American Community Survey and a multilevel research design, this study examines the interaction of metropolitan labour market characteristics with individual labour forces underemployment experiences, and explores how these interaction effects differ between the foreign-born and the native-born. Results suggest that the probability of individual labour forces underemployment within any metropolitan area is highly contingent on metropolitan labour market characteristics including ethnic diversity, the proportion of its foreign-born population, the economic structure, and the level of educational attainment of the labour force, in addition to individual characteristics.

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Authors: Wang, Qingfang; Lysenko, Tetiana

Periodical (Full): Urban Studies

Issue: 10

Volume: 51

Pages: 2202-2218

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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