Inequality at work
Subtitle: Hispanics in the U.S. labor force
By: Gregory DeFreitas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Employment; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Description: This book provides the first comprehensive economic assessment of the rapidly-growing Hispanic American work force. In a wide-ranging analysis of a variety of large computerized data banks, the author presents a host of original findings on postwar trends in Hispanic wages, poverty unemployment rates, and educational attainment. The implications of these findings for current debates on income inequality, discrimination, school dropouts, and the domestic effects of immigration are thoroughly evaluated. Many of the conclusions throw into question widely held views on these issues among the public, academics, and policymakers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-276) and index.