Patterns of economic attainment of foreign-born male workers in the United States.

abstract

• This article is concerned with the economic attainment patterns of foreign-born male workers in the US in 1980. The economic attainment patterns of males born in 92 countries of the world are examined and are compared among themselves, as well as among the seven principal US-born groups of Anglos, Afro-American, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians. For all foreign-born groups, the article examines the degree to which such individual-level factors as educational attainment, labor market experience, and so forth account for their variation in economic attainment. We conclude that although microlevel characteristics are not the complete answer, they are important for most foreign-born populations in explaining their variation in earnings. -Author

authors

• Poston, Dudley

published proceedings

• Int Migr Rev

author list (cited authors)

• Poston, D. L.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• Poston, DL

publication date

• January 1994

publisher

• JSTOR  Publisher

published in

• International Migration Review  Journal

keywords

• Americas
• Data Analysis
• Demographic Factors
• Demography
• Developed Countries
• Economic Factors
• Economics
• Emigration And Immigration
• Ethnic Groups
• Foreigners--men
• Immigrants--men
• Income
• Income--men
• Migrants
• Migration
• Nationality
• North America
• Northern America
• Population
• Population Characteristics
• Population Dynamics
• Research Report
• Social Class
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Socioeconomic Status--men
• Statistics As Topic
• Transients And Migrants
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 12345791

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2546817

start page

• 475

end page

• 500

volume

• 28

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.2307%2F2546817