Race, Immigration, and the U.S. Labor Market : Contrasting the Outcomes of Foreign Born and Native Blacks
It is generally expected that immigrants do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the interaction...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/9899327/race-immigration-labor-marke-t-contrasting-outcomes-foreign-born-native-blacks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6941 |
| Summary: | It is generally expected that immigrants
do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor
market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience
lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper
innovates by studying the interaction between race and
immigration. The study compares the labor market outcomes of
four racial groups in the United States (Whites, Blacks,
Asians, and Hispanics) interacted with their foreign born
status, using the Integrated Public Use Micro Data Series
data for the 2000 Census. Among women and for labor market
outcomes such as labor force participation, employment, and
personal income, the foreign born are doing worse than the
native born from the same racial background, with the
exception of Blacks. Among men, for labor force
participation and employment, foreign-born Blacks are doing
better than native Blacks. The paper tests different
possible explanations for this "reversal" of the
advantage of natives over immigrants among Blacks. It
considers citizenship, ability in English, age at and time
since arrival in the United States, as well as neighborhood
effects, but concludes that none of these channels explains
or modifies the observed reversal. |
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