Volume 29
Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes
Outline
In many countries today, immigrants and other distinct ethnic minorities experience high unemployment, low employment rates, lower education levels, and lesser earnings in comparison to natives. While differences in the labor market attachment and performance of immigrants can be partially explained by human capital, time spent in the host country, nationality or country of origin, and other demographics, there is still a native–immigrant gap that remains to be explained. Studying ethnic identity is not a trivial task. Complex issues of identification and measurement can surface along the way.
Check AccessChapters
- Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
- Ancestry versus ethnicity: the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States
- Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market
- Citizenship in the United States: the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin
- Assessing the case for and against dual nationality: A study of Latin Americans' assimilation in the United States
- Social determinants of labor market status of ethnic minorities in Britain
- Mexican-American self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership
- The employees of native and immigrant self-employed
- Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?
- Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
- Dynamics and diversity: ethnic employment differences in England and Wales, 1991–2001
- Race, ethnicity, and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
- Volume Details
- Editors Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
- Publication date 9 November 2009
- ISBN 978-1-84950-633-5
- ISSN 0147-9121
- Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
- doi 10.1108/rlec