Ethnicity and labor market outcomes

How immigrants and their descendents fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences among ethnicities have been found to be marked and persistent within many host countries, and while the labor market consequences of diversity have been...

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Other Authors: Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, Zimmermann, Klaus F., Constant, Amelie F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2009.
Series:Research in labor economics ; v. 29.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender / Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States / Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo
  • Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
  • Citizenship in the United States : the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
  • Assessing the case for and against dual nationality : a study of Latin Americans' assimilation in the United States / Francesca Mazzolari
  • Social determinants of labor market status of ethnic minorities in Britain / Martin Kahanec, Mariapia Mendola
  • Mexican-American self-employment : a dynamic analysis of business ownership / Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang
  • The employees of native and immigrant self-employed / Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö
  • Immigrant self-employment : does intermarriage matter? / Dimitris Georgarakos, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
  • Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children / Delia Furtado
  • Dynamics and diversity : ethnic employment differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001 / Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater.