Working with co-ethnics: Earnings penalties for Latino immigrants at Latino jobsites
Working with co-ethnics: Earnings penalties for Latino immigrants at Latino jobsites
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DOI：
10.1525/sp.2002.49.1.101
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Aguilera, MB
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Catanzarite, L;Aguilera, MB
我们证明，墨西哥人和中美洲人合法化，通过他1986年的移民改革和控制法遭受了大量的工资处罚，在工作场所，在同种族占主导地位，以上和超越的影响，人力资本水平低，就业在非正规或第二产业的工作，或在技能较低的职业。利用1992年合法化人口调查，我们回归个人，工作和职业特征的工资。这些模型表明，在拉丁裔聚居区就业的一个相当大的负面影响，这超过了多年的教育，劳动力的经验，或工作任期的影响。大多数受访者在充满同种族的工作场所工作，这种隔离使他们处于明显的经济劣势。我们认为，改善拉丁美洲移民劳动力市场结果的政策必须超越提高工人人力资本的处方，以解决导致拉丁美洲就业岗位工资不足的结构性因素。
We demonstrate that Mexicans and Central Americans legalized through he 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act suffer a substantial pay penalty for working at jobsites where co-ethnics predominate, above and beyond the influences of low levels of human capital, employment in informal or secondary sector jobs, or in less-skilled occupations. Utilizing the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, we regress wages on individual, job, and occupational characteristics. These models demonstrate a sizable, negative effect of employment in a Latino ghetto, which outweighs the effects of many years of education, labor force experience, or job tenure. Most of the respondents work at jobsites saturated with co-ethnics, and such segregation puts them at a pronounced monetary disadvantage. We argue that policies to improve immigrant Latinos' labor market outcomes must move beyond prescriptions for enhancing workers' human capital to address structural factors that contribute to underpayment at Latino jobsites.