Hispanics in the U.S. labor market : selected research

• Other Authors: Verdugo, Richard R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
• Subjects: Hispanic Americans > Employment.; Labor market > United States.; Political Science > Labor & Industrial Relations.; Sociology: work and labour.; Industrial arbitration and negotiation.; Trade unions.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613120
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-363-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages)

The Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Hispanics in the us labor market: An Introduction / Richard R. Verdugo
• Chapter 2. Latinos in the us labor market: A brief history and literature review / Mine Doyran
• Chapter 3. The determinants of income among hispanics in the california central valley: A survey / Antonio Avalos
• Chapter 4. Ethnic enclaves and the incomes of latino immigrant workers / Michael Aguilera
• Chapter 5. White-hispanic earnings inequality in urban labor markets: A study of white advantage / Travis Scott Lowe and Michael Wallace
• Chapter 6. Hispanics and the Great Recession: Differences in unemployment rate duration by ethnicity and race 2003-2010 / Harvey Cutler, Anita Alves Pena, and Martin Shields
• Chapter 7. Latin American immigration in the United States: Is there wage assimilation across the wage distribution? / Catalina Franco.